From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7351397EC for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 22:28:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DD1B141C9; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 22:27:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com (mail-wi0-f173.google.com [209.85.212.173]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 736DA14088 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 22:27:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhh20 with SMTP id hh20so20605315wib.0 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:27:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=mGyXP+Af2urQEY8iNDkAG568kfC6KxCZGunqffXojnw=; b=b1hocckp7r6QacYMSocJ8iX5B3OPcGiuGSHm73s0eZ20Tt7XRF+fKO3RSzworGMJmP sga4ZSmXYoyvc/qK2gWzIL/gqlY16+cTOmop0Zma/UCkG6M/ilsEgF6Qfv9LtFFF/tPa 0qCtAAzEf0tn6pDHRRnTQfagBBS9GksWs10D/AAcafn25Ko2rFsHl/vMZ7VxCv5Wboqi kt3dRMKaOU8LoE3siwc6U4fQ8fryxpiWUI9IgxtO8DTi0tThKKfRKxBZOHP9KNy/seeb zg+kLOwajRey6g0O6yHiWimeR8/YtqRpTAjWgV7V+EIINIHZX3LFotDzAFqTVpag7wJT bd/Q== X-Received: by 10.180.19.102 with SMTP id d6mr7361163wie.86.1440023272057; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id lr12sm27826178wic.5.2015.08.19.15.27.50 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:27:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: !!!! Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 23:27:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/4.0.5-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) References: <55D38D15.3040800@verizon.net> <55D4E317.5020204@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 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/signed; boundary="nextPart21822470.uRetY0TE2a"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201508192327.48704.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: eba9289c-d97b-42ae-a3d9-71f43ac340bd X-Archives-Hash: 9b4ba825fe039db9d554d06447f66c4a --nextPart21822470.uRetY0TE2a Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday 19 Aug 2015 21:22:02 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 19/08/2015 21:58, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 08:55:16PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > >> On Wednesday 19 Aug 2015 10:28:48 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > > >>> Smart live rebuild only deals with live ebuilds. How would it help = in > > >>> this case? > > >>=20 > > >> Anyone cares to explain what is a "live ebuild"? > > >>=20 > > >> Then I may be able to understand what @smart-live-rebuild may be > > >> useful for. > > >>=20 > > >> :-/ > > >=20 > > > A "live ebuild" is an ebuild that pulls the code to build straight fr= om > > > whatever version control the developers are using, so you always have > > > the latest and greatest. > > >=20 > > > Alec > >=20 > > they usually have version number -9999 >=20 > portage has no way of knowing if the repository the package comes from > has been updated without fetching the sources and this is done during the > merge process. So portage has no knowledge of the state of live-ebuild > packages prior to starting a merge - it doesn't know if they have been > updated upstream, so it does nothing to them during normal updates. >=20 > To update them you can use the set @live-rebuild. But this causes live > packages to be unconditionally rebuilt even if they haven't changed. >=20 > Smart-live-rebuild deals with this by updating the repositories and then > only re-emerging packages that have been changed. Thank you all, I learned something new today. :-) I would usually only update -9999 packages when I want to get a later versi= on=20 and with some trepidation because the latest isn't always the greatest. So, it has always been a manual exercise for me. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart21822470.uRetY0TE2a Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABCAAGBQJV1QLkAAoJELAdA+zwE4YeKwIH/jo5i03C/bwKtgmHqjg3ZaFN m2Inb8TG2bglprH6kfjSwplNkUh1em3JL0IPA/0MbD9bYZUTmMoZMZRH8RrXmPU+ RomcZUzYkkI6Fab1asA0+jeBPXoen3CPRXPXq//q4PoaUugGgGjO1mwFNlM80v79 vtEh1Yzfrv/yGhFFTsXD2njEs+s7cmf+yL81chp2uIie3ySvSX0rpndbMJSdjeKA /LplBENGdSF/NmSJJexPUObj6zs0AbcoSyXce/nX6OcWi/p8Uq84yZA/zO5k8CRE k5meTI8U2hV3gSeZam/VQYkzFCEwQasWuKXFwW49KNuoYvCZGCRSEVIw3b/8now= =zVIv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart21822470.uRetY0TE2a--