On 5/8/2005 4:36:40, Alec Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Problems with all of these include the same problems as the cascaded > profiles, some goofball doesn't upgrade for a year, syncs with new > digests...how does he get his portage upgraded? An upgrade path should > be provided and documented in this case.
A simple way of doing this would be to provide an emergency portage download; a tarball that one could unpack over the live filesystem that puts a current stable portage in place. Since portage doesn't include target-specific binaries it doesn't vary from one system to another so one tarball is enuogh. It could be on an 'emergency recovery' page available from www.gentoo.org. Kev. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
