On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:26:10 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Manual means manually added to the list by python-updater, rather than > > using any sort of detection. > > > > OK, I won't bother with the many definitions of the word manual or how > that effects the conversation from my end 'cause that don't matter > much to Linux man-page writers. ;-)
I agree that describing an automated default as manual is somewhat less than intuitive... > However I'm still failing to see > the interest in this as it only removes 1 or 4 packages (boost) that > I've rebuilt multiple time. 75% of the failures still fail using > -dmanual. > > c2stable ~ # python-updater -p -dmanual > * Starting Python Updater... > * Main active version of Python: 2.7 > * Active version of Python 2: 2.7 > * Active version of Python 3: 3.1 > * Adding to list: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs:0 > * Adding to list: app-emulation/virtualbox:0 > * Adding to list: app-office/openoffice-bin:0 > * Adding to list: app-office/openoffice-bin:0 I've also been hit by the first, as I think I mentioned. As for the other two, re-emerging a binary package won't help at all, because it's a binary package, so you unpack it rather than rebuild it. That's more a problem with using binary packages on a source distro than a fault of python-updater itself. -- Neil Bothwick Set phasers to extreme itching!
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