From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_06_12, DMARC_MISSING,FREEMAIL_FROM,FROM_LOCAL_DIGITS,FROM_LOCAL_HEX, FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailout00.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.16]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14VA5p-0002xb-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 03:32:26 -0700 Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.com by mailout00.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14V9Fr-0001JU-09; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:38:43 +0100 Received: from helios.bagwan (320095285153-0001@[62.155.143.171]) by fwd01.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14V9Fb-1QonQ0C; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:38:27 +0100 Received: (qmail 29051 invoked by uid 0); 20 Feb 2001 12:19:45 -0000 Received: from sadchitananda2.bagwan (HELO gottinger.de) (achim@192.168.2.1) by helios.bagwan with SMTP; 20 Feb 2001 12:19:45 -0000 Message-ID: <3A9234DE.31C9D42C@gottinger.de> From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New to Gentoo References: <000701c09b1a$edd443a0$3201a8c0@coral> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 320095285153-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: achim@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Feb 20 03:33:02 2001 X-Original-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:11:59 +0100 X-Archives-Salt: ced28c21-527f-4338-9e86-cc3ce079384f X-Archives-Hash: fc061231bbe720eb25b804c3b7465fcc "Bruce A. Locke" wrote: > Hello... I've been lurking around on the mailing list for probably over a > month now and have been playing around with Gentoo 1.0_rc4_pre2 under > vmware. I would like to convert my Linux desktop machine and test box to > Gentoo and have a couple questions: > > First, how does one successfully upgrade a default 1.0_rc4_pre2 install to > the newest version of portage? I tried doing an rsync of the portage tree > then doing a ebuild merge but whenever I try to merge other packages, etc I > get weird python errors. Did you upgrade portage or does this errors occure with the version installed? If you want to upgrade packages you should only use the ones listed in current-packages.new because there is alot of work going on for rc4 final and you can consider that the lates revisions in the tree are in development. > I saw the mention of a last minute python patch on > the mailing list and wonder if it is related. How exactly have all of you > been upgrading to the latest portage versions? :) Also I've seen mention of > work on autodependencies, etc... how far has that work progressed? The dependencies for rc4_pre2 are fairly stable. Currently I reqork dependencies in a way that they work with a minimum build environment. The rc4_pre2 ones depend on the packages in sys.tbz2 wich is a minimum runtime environbment. Additionally I add alot of flags which can profile your system. For example if you define the X flag all packages that have X support are build with X support... > > > Second, is the ebuild file format now stable enough for people to start > package development? is there a quick howto coming down the pipeline > explaining the system or is the only documention to RTFS? ;) The only docs available are three man pages in sys-apps/portage/files/man. :-/ > > > Third, I don't see any mention of DHCP in networking scripts. Is there a > clean way to quickly implement DHCP client support in the existing scripts > without rm'ing the template eth0 example? There is no dhcpclient script at the moment. But we will have reqorked sysv scripts in rc4 that support dhcp. > > > Thanks for your time... You are welcome achim~ > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Bruce A. Locke > blocke@shivan.org > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev