From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PkRBB-0008N3-7T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:06:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 190A9E0859; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 01:04:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A598E0859 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 01:04:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F143ADEF2B for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 01:04:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 76NHUR4SAIZm for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 01:04:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from humphrey.ukfsn.org (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B12BADEF28 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 01:04:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems... Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 01:04:37 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.37-gentoo; KDE/4.5.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <222344.36123.qm@web39302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <201101312135.11367.francesco.talamona@know.eu> <142004.97211.qm@web39303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <142004.97211.qm@web39303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-KMail-Markup: true Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary-01=_l2KSNP9ocl3dd7E" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102020104.37992.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 246bd67c083fbc93febad49248a626f6 --Boundary-01=_l2KSNP9ocl3dd7E Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Monday 31 January 2011 22:26:20 BRM wrote: > "emerge --sync" works fine for your _normal_ portage tree. > But if you are running a mirror on a gentoo system that also needs > its own copy of portage, then you really need to have two portage > trees on the system. One portage tree is hosted by rsync for all - > it can be synch'd at will with the official portage trees. > The second portage tree is the system's portage tree, and is only > sync'd when you update it - just like any other gentoo system. I don't understand any of this. Why should any two systems require different versions of the portage tree? -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23. --Boundary-01=_l2KSNP9ocl3dd7E Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On Monday 31 January 2011 22:26:20 BRM wrote:

> "emerge --sync" works fine for your _normal_ portage tree.

> But if you are running a mirror on a gentoo system that also needs

> its own copy of portage, then you really need to have two portage

> trees on the system. One portage tree is hosted by rsync for all -

> it can be synch'd at will with the official portage trees.

> The second portage tree is the system's portage tree, and is only

> sync'd when you update it - just like any other gentoo system.

I don't understand any of this. Why should any two systems require different versions of the portage tree?

--

Rgds

Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

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