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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GmrZT-0005GT-4b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:51:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAMCnC71002914; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:49:12 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAMCjYJv023870 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:45:34 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625858C886 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:45:33 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:45:30 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync Message-ID: <20061122124530.5ca88613@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200611182033.58194.sp_rm_it@yahoo.it> References: <200610151400.09636.sp_rm_it@yahoo.it> <200611181957.49629.sp_rm_it@yahoo.it> <1163876629.12470.142.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <200611182033.58194.sp_rm_it@yahoo.it> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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_OeoizY9VKiT6SGq2n66CUFz; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: ff1aad20-c3bf-441d-b5d0-7e5d5198ef8f X-Archives-Hash: f087f9e6c60a6110c8497231d77bddf3 --Sig_OeoizY9VKiT6SGq2n66CUFz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:33:58 +0100, Sergio Polini wrote: > Yes, but I'ld like to return to a tested sync. > Perhaps I've been too concise ;) > I have two Gentoo systems, "stable" and "testing". I'ld like to test a=20 > new sync in the "testing" system, and: > a) if it does not work well to me, restore the previous working sync=20 > from the "stable" system, and wait for a new sync; > b) if it works well, copy the working sync to the "stable" system. > This is why I'm wondering if copying /usr/portage and /etc/conf.d=20 > would be enough. emerge --sync only updates the portage tree, that is, the set of available packages. it has no effect on what is actually installed on your system. /etc/conf.d, on the other hand, contains configuration files used my various Gentoo startup scripts. the two are not related. If you want to test packages on one system before emerging them on the other, just do so. emerge them on the test system, when you are happy, emerge them on the stable system. I run ~arch on my laptop and my desktop but tend to update packages on my laptop first, on the basis that I'd rather mess that up than my desktop. Certainly with important packages like baselayout, I emerge them on the laptop and reboot before trying them on the desktop. If you want to backup the portage tree, /usr/portage less distdir and packages is what you need; but, as already mentioned, you can simply roll back a day by grabbing yesterday's snapshot fro one of the mirrors. --=20 Neil Bothwick I cna ytpe 300 wrods pre mniuet!!! --Sig_OeoizY9VKiT6SGq2n66CUFz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFZEZsum4al0N1GQMRArUOAKCCUzBh1WwVAGQfYbatFbwLw5NNnACfQUuF 91iteyd1Kh4pNunZhhDJndA= =9HD8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_OeoizY9VKiT6SGq2n66CUFz-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list