Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

2005-05-10 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Monday 09 May 2005 22:27, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 09 May 2005 04:12 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote: What about adding a panic mode to portage which, when confronted with a missing profile, (and after confirmation) continues to upgrade portage to the latest version it can find with some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

2005-05-10 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 10/05/2005-11:15:45(+0200): Paul de Vrieze types On Monday 09 May 2005 22:27, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 09 May 2005 04:12 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote: What about adding a panic mode to portage which, when confronted with a missing profile, (and after confirmation) continues to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

2005-05-09 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 23:05, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:49 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tuesday 03 May 2005 12:10 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: I think an easier solution would be a portage rescue set of profiles. afaik the only thing it'd need is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

2005-05-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 09 May 2005 04:12 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote: What about adding a panic mode to portage which, when confronted with a missing profile, (and after confirmation) continues to upgrade portage to the latest version it can find with some default settings that should allways work. looking

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

2005-05-09 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:12:03PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: What about adding a panic mode to portage which, when confronted with a missing profile, (and after confirmation) continues to upgrade portage to the latest version it can find with some default settings that should allways

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

2005-05-04 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 09:10, Chris Gianelloni wrote: I think an easier solution would be a portage rescue set of profiles. These would be minimal profiles not designed for actual use, but only for performing a portage update for those people that lag too far behind. The idea would be a very

[gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

2005-05-03 Thread Duncan
Stephen P. Becker posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 02 May 2005 12:33:24 -0400: Removing old profiles will do nothing other than forcing them to set a new profile. Changing the profile won't stop people from doing security only updates. Except that isn't quite correct, for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 08:21 -0700, Duncan wrote: Is there a convenient profile archive somewhere? If not, perhaps one should be created, and at deletion from the tree, the profile dir in question is replaced with a file (or the empty dir with only that file) pointing to the archive. This

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:49 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tuesday 03 May 2005 12:10 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: I think an easier solution would be a portage rescue set of profiles. afaik the only thing it'd need is a 'make.defaults' and a custom 'packages' (where we'd force a newer

[gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

2005-05-01 Thread Duncan
Stuart Longland posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 01 May 2005 20:35:56 +1000: Donnie Berkholz wrote: How long are all those non-cascaded profiles going to stick around? They make profile changes a mess for anyone who wants to do something crazy like change default USE flags

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

2005-05-01 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 05:31 -0700, Duncan wrote: Stuart Longland posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 01 May 2005 20:35:56 +1000: Donnie Berkholz wrote: How long are all those non-cascaded profiles going to stick around? They make profile changes a mess for anyone who