[gentoo-user] Re: Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Sorry. I should have started that a number of the failures have come
> while doing revdep-rebuild. One seemingly large problem is that
> revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild packages that are no longer in portage
> so you have to remove those from the rebuild or attempt to change
> revision numbers by hand on the fly in the long command that
> revdep-rebuild -p creates.

revedep-rebuild -X. That's default in the rewritten version.

Alexander Skwar

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[gentoo-user] Re: Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Maybe the revdep-rebuild guys should (could?) include -X if it's the
> right thing to do?

They do.

Alexander Skwar

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[gentoo-user] Re: Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> For me that means updating 6
> machines in parallel which is a significant time sync.

Are those machines identical? If so, why don't you just update 
just one machine and then mount /lib, /usr, ... from that machine,
or use FEATURES=buildpkg or --buildpkg and then simply install
the resulting packages on these other machines?

Alexander Skwar

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