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 1LMpLi-0006jx-6i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:54:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DEBCE0727; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:54:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.248]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36F4E0727 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:54:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so165194rvf.46 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:54:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WmsGuQm/PfpHBODiIHCHkdzUVNrZTPqXVMoA8Ayivu4=; b=T75c8xqQjkUd8VRf4wOiwal4tpZ9mBXr435TKp5fElyohJOdyQoncZ85HGmkTVPM9W KWctIi5tox3q82tLcrm+k6BlTRo8kXmEzwW44cLArwDtVsgUDe+ddn4DPstf0b2Ptd1f vJi5qosAANX52i8JSLesaGC5VZ2ypdV6tuOLQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=NfdniQYiSeVkCbgf/xPgKQcXhI7spTC1qiDIvjH39EkVHKBSkEvnuRRzGYpvc3dVrY aHDl+svzvBVeYjJJXyF1FLAM3et8jv1ZMX6+5kYEU7pM7wM0kZpvlqryy5fWPFEbXH0G gB9QOuobH3o0PBKYAFW4TeM/265HHXqrvMcMc= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.141.69.1 with SMTP id w1mr15459022rvk.1.1231876492455; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:54:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <496CE702.6000700@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:54:52 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: b15866dc1c6f6804 Message-ID: <58965d8a0901131154x1bc7630r69cf841208b4fa72@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge question: What's with the @? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9404d7d8-6a90-449a-9458-d6ff2fcef24a X-Archives-Hash: 5884d2bdf74159674acb2d9e0e3d5d6b On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Chris Lieb wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nick Cunningham wrote: >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> A set is basically just group of packages, you can either define you own >> using /etc/portage/ or using gentoo provided ones like @world and >> @system (which will replace the current emerge system/world usage >> eventually), aswell as useful sets such as @live-rebuild (any package >> that uses a cvs/svn/git eclass, so basically any -9999 ebuild) and >> @module-rebuild which is handy for rebuilding kernel modules. Also id >> imagine meta-packages will eventually move over to sets as it makes >> rebuilding everything or removing it much easier, currently theres only >> kde4 that makes large usage of sets but id imagine once portage 2.20 >> goes stable we'l see great set adoption. >> An easy way to see what sets are available is to use the emerge >> --list-sets command. >> >> -Nick > > Thanks for the info. The @module-rebuild should come in handy. Any > idea on when we'll see 2.2* hit stable? > > Thanks again, > Chris "When it's ready" I guess is the standard answer there. :) it's masked in ~arch as well, but you can simply unmask it if you want to use it. That's what I did. I have these sets available in my system currently: downgrade installed live-rebuild module-rebuild preserved-rebuild security system unavailable world @live-rebuild is especially handy to rebuild live cvs/svn/etc ebuilds (that -9999 stuff) Paul