Subject: Portage-2.0.51
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Date: 2004-07-10 16:59:44 GMT (4 years, 51 weeks, 3 days, 5 hours and 45 minutes ago)
Ok. All devs, please use 2.0.51. PLEASE provide bugs with any and all issues or needs reguarding portage and repoman. We can't fix it if we don't know it's broken. 2.0.51_pre13 has completed two unaided/uninterupted rounds of catalyst stage building (meaning 8 stages) normally signalling readiness for ~arch. There are a couple of features still to be added, which will be in and ~arch in the near future. Easy way to be using the developer portages: echo "sys-apps/portage" >> /etc/portage/package.mask echo "sys-apps/portage" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords Key points that need to be clear to everyone: Portage is very loud during rsync updates right now as the cache has changed for 2.0.51 and will change again some time after 2.0.51 has become stable. The corruption messages are normal for the time being, but I will get the cache updated and the messages will go away within a week or two. AFTER that week or two, all portages prior to 2.0.50-r7 will start to complain as they aren't capable of handling the new cache. I expect many users to post bugs or concerns about that due to the fact that many people ignore the messages portage prints out about updating portage (which should be done as often as necessary to never see that message). /var/cache/edb/virtuals is going away. It's obsoleted. Portage now calculates the virtuals based on packages installed in the database. Do not do anything with the old file. Delete it, but do not copy it or suggest anyone copy it. It is obsoleted. It is obsoleted. /etc/portage/virtuals can be used to add user modifications but ONLY user modifications. The full file is obsoleted. People have already done what I'm saying not to, so make sure everyone knows it's obsoleted. /var/cache/edb/world has moved. It's located in portage's new FHS compliant state directory. /var/lib/portage. There may or may not be a symlink from /etc/portage/sets/world to that file as it seems to confuse people, and getting the symlink to stick around is challenging for some reason. The directory is created and scanned for bad files which are then deleted. Nothing is allowed to be in that directory other than portage:portage owned and o-rwx files. Everything else should be deleted when portage runs as root. /usr/lib/portage/bin/regenworld can fix most any worldfile deletion. You can use 'emerge depclean -p' and 'emerge -uD world -p' to work on the missing parts and the cruft. --NJ