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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 02:21:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705230221.57134.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AA0639A1EB70AE409130258CE7BDC3183237E9@messenger.cv63.navy.mil>

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On Wednesday 23 May 2007 02:13:18 burlingk@cv63.navy.mil wrote:
> If nothing else the handbook says that Gentoo etiquite says not
> to rsync your portage tree more than once a day.  For the average
> distro, once a week or even once a month is more than sufficient
> to keep up with the packages in the main branch.

If you wait more than 30 days between syncs you risk missing messages in 
package.mask. Packages must be in package.mask for 30 days before being 
removed from the tree...

> I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three
> install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before
> moving on from there.

Err.. what was the purpose of that `emerge -e world` ? (-u and -D does 
absolutely nothing when used with -e).

-- 
Bo Andresen

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-23  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-23  0:13 [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question burlingk
2007-05-23  0:21 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen [this message]
2007-05-23  8:25   ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-23  0:25 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-23  0:46   ` Dale
2007-05-23  0:57     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-23  2:37       ` Dale
2007-05-23  8:22       ` Neil Bothwick
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-23  1:40 burlingk
2007-05-22  7:42 burlingk
2007-05-22  8:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-22  7:13 burlingk
2007-05-22  7:26 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-22  6:47 burlingk
2007-05-22  7:02 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-22  5:13 burlingk
2007-05-22  4:55 burlingk
2007-05-22  4:06 burlingk
2007-05-22  4:30 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-05-22  5:01 ` Naga
2007-05-22  5:23   ` Dale
2007-05-22  5:39   ` Iain Buchanan
2007-05-22  6:30     ` Naga
2007-05-22 13:03       ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-22  6:34 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-22 15:27   ` Dan Farrell

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