On Monday 02 May 2011 23:07:00 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Mon, 2 May 2011 11:16:36 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> > Does stable portage support the --autounmask option to emerge? > >>> > >>> I use ~amd64 portage so I have supports that feature but what command > >>> do I run today to unmask the version level they will make stable next > >>> week? (For instance 0.7 instead of 0.8) I don't think that feature > >>> looks into the future like that. > >> > >> The latest version of baselayout is over six weeks old, so I'd go for > >> that. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Neil Bothwick > > > > Life's a crap shoot. (As are all my index futures trades today.) Sounds > > good. > > > > Cheers, > > Mark > > OK, I'm writing this from an updated Gentoo VM running in Virtualbox > on my (as yet) not updated Gentoo server. Things went well. The only > semi-issue that came up for me so far was the rc-sys="" variable not > being set. The way upgrade doc is written I had the impression that > this only mattered if I was in a machine that ran VMs on it and not to > be done in the VM itself. Seems that you really want rc_sys to be set > for any Gentoo install I guess. Ah! I forgot to mention this - it showed up on mine too. You need to read this /etc/rc.conf section: ==================================================== # This is the subsystem type. Valid options on Linux: # "" - nothing special # "lxc" - Linux Containers # "openvz" - Linux OpenVZ # "prefix" - Prefix # "uml" - Usermode Linux # "vserver" - Linux vserver # "xen0" - Xen0 Domain # "xenU" - XenU Domain # If this is commented out, automatic detection will be attempted. # Note that autodetection will not work in a prefix environment or in a # linux container. # # This should be set to the value representing the environment this file is # PRESENTLY in, not the virtualization the environment is capable of. #rc_sys="" rc_sys="" ==================================================== I've used the "nothing special" option, but yours might need to be something different on the VMhost. The guest would be "nothing special" I would think. (Not sure what the "prefix" is ... -- Regards, Mick