From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LMogz-0001Nx-3f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:12:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED860E073A; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:12:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C34E073A for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:12:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v33so75988wah.2 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:12:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=BVAAqDmtj/s0dkhulSuuvSjrBYTO5Qwz5sM9MdcKm6A=; b=NAnYjj/WQmsyOMq6DC+EZLZ3dx8JAbSlhGm2tBLrUzMYjfe8wUAmejkHuTbk2o8nyC pZS2Y22WtYcD88z+0WMHxzDghK3ewxA3VzLYlKopGKNt7OkVEq9X7d97MTChy4C/RS40 zJQyLUYdJF9ENbAYgtTjnpmnH9FugTIj3axcU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=sv/+S+rv0TYhlbkr7py+xGfQjOmlS+mhPZf1+FCOax+lVwW8QYsIUFCZyPXuDrSIKf SJJtr9F/lW1ocIevaNiS4ww9BgCDoeDF1VL1sdrtqXf/74dOwRsUOMV1NYUQb24xHb93 5dcxw/LI9+scPS8jUxXn4/fIYW4HN+kUATwmE= 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 Received: by 10.114.13.10 with SMTP id 10mr20505402wam.219.1231873967243; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:12:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <496CE702.6000700@gmail.com> References: <496CE702.6000700@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:12:47 +0300 Message-ID: <242a85ce0901131112l76b3077r68833b778187d49c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge question: What's with the @? From: Nikolay Mikheev To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f66a9289-2a80-4a9f-9080-312f2dad24c3 X-Archives-Hash: 9fb2bca3d130fa3c0700aa6a7c94b141 2009/1/13 Chris Lieb : > I've noticed lately on the ML that people have been talking about using > package sets, such as @world and @installed. I figured it was a part of > portage 2.1.6* since using @world with 2.1.4* would result in an error > message about an invalid package atom. However, after upgrading to > portage 2.1.6.4, I still get the same error when doing something like > 'emerge -up @world'. > > What are these package sets? What is the difference between 'emerge -up > world' and 'emerge -up @world'? Why don't these package sets ever work > for me? > > Thanks, > Chris > > You can use sets since portage-2.2. There is no sets in 2.1 branch. -- Best regards, Mikheev Nikolay