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 4.54) id 1FKM67-0000yb-AQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:02:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2HL1x9N032102; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:01:59 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2HKvmOC009755 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:57:48 GMT Received: from [213.121.151.206] (helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1FKM15-0000k2-H4 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:57:47 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FKM10-0004n2-JO for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:57:42 +0000 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:57:38 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What on Earth is Portage doing for so long? Message-ID: <20060317205738.60174bd2@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <441AC49C.8040009@mid.message-center.info> References: <441ABC69.5000406@veldy.net> <441AC310.7010906@veldy.net> <441AC49C.8040009@mid.message-center.info> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.13; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_9j6C/CQT601qgUGxyOXRTn."; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: d9a21e52-9c69-40bb-b6de-6911bc8b5fd0 X-Archives-Hash: d3a11bd41300518e6ad9f264ecd7eed4 --Sig_9j6C/CQT601qgUGxyOXRTn. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:15:56 +0100 Alexander Skwar wrote: | Well, you know, in worst case, portage doesn't work anymore. | In this case, you'd just have to revert your changes, and | everything's fine again. No, in the worst case Portage ends up with duff cache data, leading to utterly inappropriate packages being installed. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_9j6C/CQT601qgUGxyOXRTn. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEGyLG96zL6DUtXhERAgQUAJ9DuoEJO5DvnZg56iDcm8Kav2z12ACgvcpu IgsfQsCXBtvpvEYsrP8vFBc= =yffr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_9j6C/CQT601qgUGxyOXRTn.-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list