From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j49MNJDG018040 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 22:23:20 GMT Received: from adsl-67-39-48-193.dsl.milwwi.ameritech.net ([67.39.48.193] helo=exodus) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DVGem-0003yo-0d for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 22:23:20 +0000 Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 17:23:35 -0500 From: Brian Harring To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles Message-ID: <20050509222335.GK26049@exodus.wit.org> References: <4274ACD1.9020003@gentoo.org> <200505031449.54237.vapier@gentoo.org> <1115154350.889.286.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <200505092212.10787.pauldv@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505092212.10787.pauldv@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: c530a0ae-ea83-4ba7-a9ed-ea843f9c31a4 X-Archives-Hash: 8b19a142d241f79b38a66436acce06ef On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:12:03PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > What about adding a "panic" mode to portage which, when confronted with a > missing profile, (and after confirmation) continues to upgrade portage to the > latest version it can find with some default settings that should allways > work. Can't see any tenuable way to pull it off; without the profile, keywording can be something of a crapshoot (consider p.mask'ed portage versions, which do, and will continue to, occur). Depends on your definition of default though I spose; I'd expect it would require a portage modification though :) ~brian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list