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 1JjDNG-000258-Nl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:56:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EC06E06D5; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:56:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmailhost03.isp.att.net (fmailhost03.isp.att.net [204.127.217.103]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07CA0E06D5 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.78.70.226] (host-216-78-70-226.jan.bellsouth.net[216.78.70.226]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc03) with ESMTP id <20080408125623H0300i0f93e>; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:56:24 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [216.78.70.226] Message-ID: <47FB6B76.4000701@bellsouth.net> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:56:22 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080328 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages References: <2577300.OLZLf1hHOn@schmarck.cn> <200804081252.21594.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <47FB60DA.2040009@bellsouth.net> <200804081435.53137.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200804081435.53137.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ba57238f-bcd2-43f4-95ef-a6486764cff0 X-Archives-Hash: 01d87fd2aafc73c55225d02282d27765 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Dale wrote: > > > I have :-) > > I've also removed (forcibly) all versions of gcc, portage, and glibc > individually and all together. quickpkg is a nice thing to know > about :-) > I got that covered. I found this little tid bit of info. OP may want to make a note of this too. Pssssst, you see this? FEATURES="buildsyspkg sandbox fixpackages parallel-fetch" I like the buildsyspkg part. At least I will have the system packages and can boot up. > Once I even merged busybox to the root filesystem. It overwrites all the > Unix tools with symlinks to busybox. Cool, you get a tiny install that > can go on an embedded device. > Sounds cool, for the right equipment. ;-) Maybe not a desktop or a fancy server, on second thought. :-p > BUT, busybox give you tar, it does not give you tar -o > > Guess which gentoo-specific app requires tar -o? Do I hear the > word "portage"? Anyone?? > > Naturally. What else could use that? Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list