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From: "Sebastian Günther" <samson@guenther-roetgen.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: How to veiw absolute latest on partage without  syncing
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:45:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090614164558.GA12492@marvin.heimnetz.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uy6rxctvj.fsf@newsguy.com>

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* Harry Putnam (reader@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 18:15]:
> 
> I can sync fine... just didn't want to do an update world just now as
> my sources are quite new, but still didn't want to get sources too far
> ahead of installed packages.
> 

I think, you did not understand, what a sync does. It updates mostly 
ebuilds and not ever any source package.

And ebuilds are just recipes to build software from sources, so this has 
no impact on the software installed, as long as you don't want to 
rebuild a specific version, which is no longer in the tree. But even for 
this case there is the attic.

Gentoo's normal behaviour is frequent change. May you should consider 
the buildpkg option or quickpkg to have binary packages for all your 
installed software at hand, for quick recovery.

But syncing the portage tree at least weekly, most likely daily, is that 
what most Gentoo users do. So there is absolute no problem, especially 
if you are using the stable tree...

Sebastian

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-14 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-12 14:24 [gentoo-user] How to veiw absolute latest on partage without syncing Harry Putnam
2009-06-12 14:29 ` Justin
2009-06-12 14:40   ` Paul Hartman
2009-06-12 16:07     ` Stroller
2009-06-12 16:13       ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2009-06-12 16:21         ` Dale
2009-06-12 16:30           ` Harry Putnam
2009-06-12 21:09             ` Dale
2009-06-12 21:25               ` Harry Putnam
2009-06-14 16:45         ` Sebastian Günther [this message]
2009-06-12 16:45       ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2009-06-12 18:17         ` Mike Kazantsev
2009-06-12 21:32         ` Daniel da Veiga

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