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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:27:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <218924762.kZXUe7llTm@nazgul> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yu9ty9ja6q7.fsf@nyu.edu>

On Sun 14 August 2011 19:55:28 Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly:
> On Sun, Aug 14 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > It's installing Gnome 3 stuff.
> > 
> > Is that what you want?
> 
> Yes.  That is why I am using the gnome overlay
> 
> > Look at your unmasking rules.
> 
> They were supposed to be the ones that came with the instructions
> for moving to gnome 3.  But I didn't realize that eix-update
> doesn't update layman and I need layman -S.  It is still not
> working but I will study the new blockages arising after layman -S.

That caught me out a few times too. I put these commands into a bash 
alias:

emerge --sync
layman -S
eix-update

and use that to sync portage. That way I don't leave steps out.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-15  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-14  1:52 [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media Allan Gottlieb
2011-08-14 10:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-14 23:55   ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-08-15  8:27     ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-08-15 10:39       ` James Broadhead
2011-08-15 16:04       ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-08-15 16:33       ` Paul Hartman
2011-08-15 17:25         ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-15 17:31           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-08-15 18:04             ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-15 19:41               ` Volker Armin Hemmann

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