Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge question: What's with the @?
2009/1/13 Chris Lieb > I've noticed lately on the ML that people have been talking about using > package sets, such as @world and @installed. I figured it was a part of > portage 2.1.6* since using @world with 2.1.4* would result in an error > message about an invalid package atom. However, after upgrading to > portage 2.1.6.4, I still get the same error when doing something like > 'emerge -up @world'. > > What are these package sets? What is the difference between 'emerge -up > world' and 'emerge -up @world'? Why don't these package sets ever work > for me? > > Thanks, > Chris > > A set is basically just group of packages, you can either define you own using /etc/portage/ or using gentoo provided ones like @world and @system (which will replace the current emerge system/world usage eventually), aswell as useful sets such as @live-rebuild (any package that uses a cvs/svn/git eclass, so basically any - ebuild) and @module-rebuild which is handy for rebuilding kernel modules. Also id imagine meta-packages will eventually move over to sets as it makes rebuilding everything or removing it much easier, currently theres only kde4 that makes large usage of sets but id imagine once portage 2.20 goes stable we'l see great set adoption. An easy way to see what sets are available is to use the emerge --list-sets command. -Nick
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge question: What's with the @?
2009/1/13 Chris Lieb : > I've noticed lately on the ML that people have been talking about using > package sets, such as @world and @installed. I figured it was a part of > portage 2.1.6* since using @world with 2.1.4* would result in an error > message about an invalid package atom. However, after upgrading to > portage 2.1.6.4, I still get the same error when doing something like > 'emerge -up @world'. > > What are these package sets? What is the difference between 'emerge -up > world' and 'emerge -up @world'? Why don't these package sets ever work > for me? > > Thanks, > Chris > > You can use sets since portage-2.2. There is no sets in 2.1 branch. -- Best regards, Mikheev Nikolay
[gentoo-user] Emerge question: What's with the @?
I've noticed lately on the ML that people have been talking about using package sets, such as @world and @installed. I figured it was a part of portage 2.1.6* since using @world with 2.1.4* would result in an error message about an invalid package atom. However, after upgrading to portage 2.1.6.4, I still get the same error when doing something like 'emerge -up @world'. What are these package sets? What is the difference between 'emerge -up world' and 'emerge -up @world'? Why don't these package sets ever work for me? Thanks, Chris
