From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt1Yk-00047b-1m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:06:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27F6221C2A6; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:06:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4F921C1CB for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:04:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf25 with SMTP id 25so4448557wwf.10 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:04:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=/E1qHl44Q5qQD3rYTtRwX6BhppVy8XVwYc9hKgvN+V4=; b=fVeOKF2a4mhecaYoQUZ+z0jzBqOhTA7UqCkLXMG/vXjxmUlo5h8eaF1kntk5Aa/QhQ mcNgMs57kkRO8b0EkwUiwQtghtO++0LnS9HksF14yi2RTUcJVmPDIdmMv8NXSOveTScC XNwtiCcI0mTv4C6kp8DCsEiPGH4LMbykjRsrE= Received: by 10.227.5.213 with SMTP id 21mr3670586wbw.109.1313431484699; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:04:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-55.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id et16sm4747558wbb.19.2011.08.15.11.04.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:04:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:04:21 +0200 Message-ID: <1792195.D9ys82rHzO@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck-r2; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <13699215.GWIA95SEgq@localhost> References: <3279714.bFk3lpi4rW@nazgul> <13699215.GWIA95SEgq@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ea304573114b26662c21cec7fccc5bae On Mon 15 August 2011 19:31:50 Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: > Am Montag 15 August 2011, 19:25:12 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > On Mon 15 August 2011 11:33:02 Paul Hartman did opine thusly: > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Alan McKinnon > > > > wrote: > > > > That caught me out a few times too. I put these commands > > > > into a bash alias: > > > > > > > > emerge --sync > > > > layman -S > > > > eix-update > > > > > > > > and use that to sync portage. That way I don't leave > > > > steps out.> > > > > Congratulations, you reinvented the "eix-sync" command. :) > > > > You caught me out :-) > > > > There was a reason (a good one) why I did that several years > > ago, but for the life of me I can't think what it was. > > if eix-sync fails with one of the overlays, all fails. > if one overlay fails doing it step by step you can do all the other > stuff without worrying about it. Sounds familiar, odds are good that's what drove me to take the long road. I take it eix-sync still has this same behaviour? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com