Hasan Khalil wrote:
On Aug 10, 2005, at 24:42, Grobian wrote:
| Note: With each emerge --sync, the /usr/portage directory is wiped of
| any user changes. Be sure to keep a log of your development efforts
| and report your findings to the Gentoo for Mac OS X team.
Ehm, is this really true? I vaguely remember in my first days doing
this thinking a sync would wipe out my mess, then coming to the
conclusion it didn't. I don't know exactly how rsync is being called,
but if a file is newer on the target host, than on the server, is it
overwritten? I thought rsync is able to optimise by only beaming over
the changed files on the server side, preventing copying all of the
files (550MB currently). Somebody slap me with the man page and the
massive number of options supplied to rsync when running emerge sync
if I see ghosts here...
AFAIK, yes. Any time I've made changes to /usr/portage and then did a
sync, regardless of whether or not there was an actual update to that
file in the meanwhile, my changes were overwritten.
Feel free to attack me with a medium-sized herring if I'm completely
wrong in throwing in said <note>. I just thought that note would be a
nice thing to have in there for anyone who was confused at this
functionality. If anyone feels as though it shouldn't be there, please
let me know and I'd be glad to remove it.
I'm just unsure about it. It think it would be best to anyhow
disencourage people to mess with their /usr/portage/ (shoot no, auto
completion here ;)). I learnt it somehow the hard way that it is not
'handy' to hack that tree ;)
/me mumbles something about lost sources, etc...
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Fabian Groffen
eBuild && Porting
Gentoo for Mac OS X
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