Re: [gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync

[Sergio Polini <sp_rm_it@yahoo.it>]

Mick:
> On Sunday 15 October 2006 13:00, Sergio Polini wrote:
> > May I undo an emerge --sync?
> > Thanks
> > Sergio
>
> No, but wait for a while for the mirrors to refresh themselves and
> resync later.  Hopefully, what ever package/version you couldn't
> download would be updated for synch-ing by then.
>
> Of course, I'm only liberally interpreting your question to deduce
> what the problem might be, because you didn't tell us.

You are right ;-)
My problems are:
a) my goal is a reasonably updated working system, not one in the 
latest fashion;
b) I had got to two RUWSs, an old Athlon xp (with riva TNT 2) and an 
HP dv5000z (Turion, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M);
-- updating my Athlon system was a mess *before* the new 
nvidia-legacy-drivers package, so it was worth updating the portage 
tree, but after the last "emerge --sync" many packages are blocked 
becasue they want a non-existent media-video/nvidia-glx (?) required 
(?) by an already installed and working qt-3.3.6-r1;
-- my laptop was perfect before modular X, then I ran into inadeguate 
support (by ATI and Xorg) of my video card.

I'm thinking about a "solution":
a) a "stable" root partition, including all directories used by 
portage (/etc, /usr, /var, and..? eventually all but home);
b) a "testing" root partition;
c) updating the portage tree in the testing partion, always emerging 
with the --buildpkg option;
d) updating the portage tree in the stable partition, and emerging the 
tbz2files created on the testing partition. only when the testing 
partition looks stable.

Any comments?
Thanks
Sergio
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