Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce-base/xfce ebuild is broken?

[Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com>]

Grant Edwards schrieb:
>>> Relax, there are currently a few pkg moves in xfce.
>>>
>>> xfce-extra/xfce4-icon-theme
>>> xfce-extra/terminal
>>> xfce-extra/ristretto
>>>
>>> This three are moved to other categories, sync again in a few hours and 
>>> if it does not work file a bug!
>> plus xfce-extra/xfburn. This is WIP so maybe others are moved
>> too. Wait until the changes are done!
> 
> OK, I'll try again tomorrow.  
> 
> This does prompt a couple questions:
> 
>  1. How does one know when not to do a sync/update so that one
>     can avoid these problems?  Is there a database broken
>     ornot-broken status?
> 
>  2. Is there no way to "commit" a set of database changes so
>     that the database doesn't have to be left in a broken state
>     during moves?  (Maybe I'm just spoiled using Subversion...)

1. You can not know before but you can monitor the irc channel 
#gentoo-commits on freenode or the gentoo-commits mailing list. So you 
know which changes are done to the portage tree. Be careful this will 
cause heavy traffic to your inbox.

2. I don't know if this is doable in one go. The gentoo package 
maintainer adds the ebuild to its new place and removes it from its old. 
When this is done he changes the other ebuilds pointing to the old 
locations. He also makes an entry in $PORTDIR/profiles/updates so the 
/var/db/pkg is updated accordingly for already installed packages.

Regards,

Daniel
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