[ale] emerge help

[Jim Kinney]

Ubuntu hasn't sucked all the smart out of ale (yet)
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On Nov 23, 2011 5:39 PM, "Jeff Hubbs" <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:

>  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>
>> Subject: Re: [ale] emerge help
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <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> 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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