[ale] emerge help

[Jeff Hubbs]

There are still Gentoo people on the list?  I thought I was the only one...

On 11/23/11 2:20 PM, wes smith wrote:
>
>     Message: 1
>     Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:01:18 -0500
>     From: Lawrence Hamblin <infinity.d2 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:infinity.d2 at gmail.com>>
>     Subject: Re: [ale] emerge help
>     To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>>
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>     Another way of updating those config files is to enter the command
>     dispatch-conf after you do an emerge.  That will run through every
>     config
>     file to be updated and show you what would be changed: a line
>     starting with
>     a plus sign would be added to the existing file, and one starting
>     with a
>     minus sign would be deleted from it.  You can then decide whether
>     to use
>     the new file or "zap" (delete) it.
>
>     Dispatch-conf comes in handy if you have your CONFIG_PROTECT in
>     make.conf
>     set to "/etc", which is what I have on my system.
>
>     -Lawrence
>
>     On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:34 AM, rhia <rhiannen at atlantacon.org
>     <mailto:rhiannen at atlantacon.org>> wrote:
>
>     > Chris
>     >
>     > Pre-coffee, so hopefully coherent-ish enough.
>     >
>     >
>     > Edit /etc/portage/package.keywords and add the line
>     > =sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r3 ~x86
>     >
>     > Edit /etc/portage/package.mask and add the line
>     > =sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r3
>     >
>     >
>     > For "Use eselect news to read news items" enter at the prompt:
>     >  eselect news read new
>     > (Never know, it might actually be relevant to what you're doing.)
>     >
>     > Then emerge sys-devel/gettext again
>     >
>     >
>     > rhia
>     >
>     >
>     > On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 10:57 -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
>     > > I'm new at gentoo and I'm messing with rebuilding sysrescuecd
>     with some
>     > > apps.
>     > >
>     > > I'm getting this output
>     > >
>     > >
>     >
>     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     > >
>     > > sysresccd portage # emerge sys-devel/gettext
>     > >
>     > >  * IMPORTANT: 5 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
>     > >  * Use eselect news to read news items.
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >  * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/portage/package.keywords' needs
>     > > updating.
>     > >  * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge
>     > >  * man page to learn how to update config files.
>     > > Calculating dependencies... done!
>     > > [ebuild  N    #] sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r3  USE="acl cxx
>     git nls
>     > > openmp -doc -emacs -java -static-libs"
>     > >
>     > > The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed:
>     > > #required by sys-devel/gettext (argument)
>     > > >=sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r3 ~x86
>     > >
>     > > The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
>     > > #required by sys-devel/gettext (argument)
>     > > # /etc/portage/package.mask:
>     > > # fix problems
>     > > >=sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r3
>     > >
>     > > NOTE: This --autounmask behavior can be disabled by setting
>     > >       EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n" in make.conf.
>     > >
>     > > Use --autounmask-write to write changes to config files (honoring
>     > > CONFIG_PROTECT).
>     > >
>     > >  * IMPORTANT: 5 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
>     > >  * Use eselect news to read news items.
>     > >
>     > >
>     >
>     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     > > Maybe a translation of what I need to do :)
>
>
> I've always used etc-update, merges trivial config files 
> automagically, and allows you to merge only selected parts of the 
> updated .cfg0000*.
>
>
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