From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GI7Lb-0002un-6q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:25:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7THOha5012750; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:24:43 GMT Received: from outmail.freedom2surf.net (outmail1.freedom2surf.net [194.106.33.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7THKW9S009730 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:20:32 GMT Received: from snowdrop.home (82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.57.20]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A012D9195F for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:20:32 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:20:25 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Sets Message-ID: <20060829182026.67bd4588@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <44F471A5.3020405@gentoo.org> References: <44F42BB7.4010005@gentoo.org> <20060829162521.6105d3f4@snowdrop.home> <44F471A5.3020405@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 47657536-a839-44ee-bfa0-985b67bdd370 X-Archives-Hash: 133465321a6511d372675f366b43a5a3 On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:56:05 +0200 Simon Stelling wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > For those who aren't aware of how Paludis handles this... File sets | > are a text file that live in repodir/sets/ or confdir/sets/ and are | > named setname.conf. Lines can be in the form *atom , which means | > "include atom in the set", or ?atom , which means "include atom in | > the set only if the package represented by atom is already | > installed". | | That paragraph sounds like if it came from Duncan. No offense to | anyone, just couldn't resist *g*. Naah, it was only one paragraph. | > The big difference between paludis --install setname and paludis | > --install $(< setfile), aside from the *? support, is that the | > former won't reinstall packages that don't need upgrading, and the | > latter will. It's the same as emerge world vs emerge $(< | > worldfile), the latter being similar to emerge -e world... | | So it's the same as 'emerge -n $(< worldfile)'? It behaves like emerge -n works, yes (and not the way emerge --help says that -n works, which implies that emerge -n foo won't upgrade foo if foo is already installed at a lower version). -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list