From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from callisto.cs.kun.nl (callisto.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.75]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4A9GZ6H026726 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 09:16:35 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by callisto.cs.kun.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE3882E8036 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 11:16:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:15:45 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <4274ACD1.9020003@gentoo.org> <200505092212.10787.pauldv@gentoo.org> <200505091627.28672.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200505091627.28672.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Face: #Lb+'V@sGJ;ptgo5}V"W+5OCoo{LZv;bh,s,`WKLi/J)ed1_$0;6X<=?utf-8?q?700LVV/=3BLqPhiDP=5E=0A=09=27f=5Dfnv?=@%6M8\'HR1t=aFx;ePfp{ZQoBe+e)JOQ8T5*(_;mHY+cltLGq<;@$Y,=?utf-8?q?O=5C=24=0A=09Tm=23G6M?=,g![Q62J{na*S9d;R[^8pc%u\aiLqU@`kJtYl"^6pxdW 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart32830487.GksRa6gxp1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200505101116.01178.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 3f5f294b-bfaa-440a-8b9b-f07c4990da43 X-Archives-Hash: eab334ac97cfc8480cd5b96d6398bd6f --nextPart32830487.GksRa6gxp1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 09 May 2005 22:27, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 09 May 2005 04:12 pm, 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. > > looking ahead that's a good idea but for older portages that doesnt > help at all ... the profiles we're talking about here will break when > given a cascaded profile I know. But I'm certain that todays profiles will need to be removed in=20 the future. And quite possibly there will be things that break very old=20 portage versions. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart32830487.GksRa6gxp1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCgHvRbKx5DBjWFdsRAquGAKDOTXYIBs6b350amG9q1NDgyNM4iwCfRvxc Xt6nZJoRNH/nRvVswtE10lg= =TSAx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart32830487.GksRa6gxp1-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list