From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FKNox-0007k8-8F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:53:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2HMqL7Y007579; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:52:21 GMT Received: from pproxy.gmail.com (pproxy.gmail.com [64.233.166.180]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2HMlatB027483 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:47:36 GMT Received: by pproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z59so1113525pyg for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:47:02 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Hspv2QmZsJUxmLNwJkqttXsByyzxldO0Cl1ci4vuOdyj/jFl+tlmDQtUaIs69EDNdaUEII0BN4j9RK7eEZ+simdB6jZCla5DKlESj9o4diC9rXl4e+QvBJAN3QPTAklwn4rk6CPwxB/ceNJr6gwsNSDQMBP1g86TezxZtNDHpZk= Received: by 10.35.101.9 with SMTP id d9mr46224pym; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:47:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.31.3 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:47:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0603171447h318038ech165f950ab27be048@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:47:02 -0800 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What on Earth is Portage doing for so long? In-Reply-To: <20060317205738.60174bd2@snowdrop.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <441ABC69.5000406@veldy.net> <441AC310.7010906@veldy.net> <441AC49C.8040009@mid.message-center.info> <20060317205738.60174bd2@snowdrop.home> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2HMlatB027483 X-Archives-Salt: d48b55ea-43b7-4187-90ef-c9cc6078479e X-Archives-Hash: 1e7d4c0c5e80c0005d2248c936e92375 On 3/17/06, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:15:56 +0100 Alexander Skwar > wrote: > | Well, you know, in worst case, portage doesn't work anymore. > | In this case, you'd just have to revert your changes, and > | everything's fine again. > > No, in the worst case Portage ends up with duff cache data, leading to > utterly inappropriate packages being installed. > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Hi, I've been using this cdb hack for so long I'd forgotten that it was there. If it is backed out is there a standard way to use portage these days that goes reasonably fast and doesn't have these risks. Granted, the risks are quite low, I think, but better not to take risks if not required to. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list