Re: [gentoo-user] making sense of emerge --sync

[maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com>]

--- Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:

> On 7/5/06, maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2006
> >
> > which contains the following:
> >
> > move net-wireless/madwifi-tools
> > net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools
> > move net-wireless/madwifi-driver
> > net-wireless/madwifi-ng
> 
> These are instructions to portage to move things
> around for installed
> packages.  For example, if someone had
> net-wireless/madwifi-tools
> installed, well that is now
> "net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools" in
> portage.  So portage needs to update the installed
> package database in
> /var/pkg/db to reflect the new name, so the user
> continues to receive
> updates for it.
> 
> See 5.f at:
>
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=5#doc_chap6
> 
> > "update"? Is 2Q-2006 supposed to have anything to
> do
> > with emerge -u portage? It doesn't look like it.
> But
> > then what is it for?
> 
> What you really should have seen was a message that
> said "Applying
> 2Q-2006 updates" or some such.  Not a "go look at
> this file" message.
> 
> -Richard

Thanks Richard, good link. I didn't mean to imply that
I was advised to read that file. I mentioned it
because I didn't recognize it from the last time I
sync'ed portage.

But your reply leads to other questions: IIRC portage
didn't say "applying updates", it just mentioned the
file at the end of the sync. Don't I have to run
update to actually "apply" the updates? And, how do I
prevent some updates and allow others. 

I have bandwidth issues;(

-Maxim

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