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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:25:00 -0400 Jeffrey Forman <jforman@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| Just this morning (afternoon/evening) on #-dev I got to talking to
| some people about the usefulness of "emerge -U." I was wondering if
| someone had any clue as to why its being removed? I frequently mix
| packages in~x86 to test, or just to use newer revisions which are more
| stable and with -U going away, I wont be able to update my machine
| without downgrading a <insert explitive> load of packages.

Because it's broken. It doesn't handle forced downgrades, version number
system changes or slots properly, and it will sometimes allow a
downgrade anyway.

| Yes I know about editing package.keywords, but how much of a PITA is
| that to have to add an entry for every package you emerge that is
| masked for one reason or another.

Make a bash alias for it :)

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On Monday 20 September 2004 1:55 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:25:00 -0400 Jeffrey Forman <jforman@gentoo.org>
>
> wrote:
> | Just this morning (afternoon/evening) on #-dev I got to talking to
> | some people about the usefulness of "emerge -U." I was wondering if
> | someone had any clue as to why its being removed? I frequently mix
> | packages in~x86 to test, or just to use newer revisions which are more
> | stable and with -U going away, I wont be able to update my machine
> | without downgrading a <insert explitive> load of packages.
>
> Because it's broken. It doesn't handle forced downgrades,

Half the purpose is to ignore forced downgrades, IMO...

> version number system changes

That's a bug in how Portage handles versions, not in -U

> or slots

How so?

> properly, and it will sometimes allow a downgrade anyway.

Never seen this incident.
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:24:54 +0000 Luke-Jr <luke-jr@utopios.org> wrote:
| > Because it's broken. It doesn't handle forced downgrades,
|
| Half the purpose is to ignore forced downgrades, IMO...

No, the purpose is to ignore downgrades caused by running ~arch packages
on an arch system.

| > version number system changes
|
| That's a bug in how Portage handles versions, not in -U

Nope.

| > or slots
|
| How so?

AFAICS, -U is totally un-SLOT-aware.

| > properly, and it will sometimes allow a downgrade anyway.
|
| Never seen this incident.

Try removing some ebuilds.

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On Monday 20 September 2004 12:24 pm, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > properly, and it will sometimes allow a downgrade anyway.
>
> Never seen this incident.

yes you have because i remember listening to you complain about it once and me
telling you to shut up ;)
-mike

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Mike Frysinger wrote:
| On Monday 20 September 2004 12:24 pm, Luke-Jr wrote:
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|>>properly, and it will sometimes allow a downgrade anyway.
|>
|>Never seen this incident.
|
|
| yes you have because i remember listening to you complain about it
once and me
| telling you to shut up ;)
| -mike
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Just totally awesome that other devs can be so nice to one another on a
public mailing list.

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On Tuesday 21 September 2004 05:08 pm, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Just totally awesome that other devs can be so nice to one another on a
> public mailing list.

actually if you stick around longer you'll understand me

until then, stop taking things out of context (*my* context)
-mike

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On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:00:45 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| On Tuesday 21 September 2004 05:08 pm, Doug Goldstein wrote:
| > Just totally awesome that other devs can be so nice to one another
| > on a public mailing list.
|
| actually if you stick around longer you'll understand me

Yeah, I think spankyism is contagious... There's no known cure either :(

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Jeffrey Forman wrote:
> Just this morning (afternoon/evening) on #-dev I got to talking to some
> people about the usefulness of "emerge -U." I was wondering if someone
> had any clue as to why its being removed? I frequently mix packages in
> ~x86 to test, or just to use newer revisions which are more stable and
> with -U going away, I wont be able to update my machine without
> downgrading a <insert explitive> load of packages.
>
> Yes I know about editing package.keywords, but how much of a PITA is
> that to have to add an entry for every package you emerge that is masked
> for one reason or another.
>
> Any thoughts, comments, or ideas of how you want to burn me at the
> stake?
>
> -Jeffrey

What's wrong with "emerge -U"? I'll tell you what's wrong with emerge
-U. Its behaviour is completely broken. What happens, for example, when
rsync-2.6.1 hits portage, is marked stable, then it's realised that it's
broken, but "emerge -U" won't downgrade it as the ebuild is masked
pending further development rather than removed? I'll tell you what. You
get a ****load of whinging users on the forums and on b.g.o saying "my
emerge sync doesn't work, wtf?!?!?!!!!11111oneoneone". There have also
been issues in the past couple of days with the new glibc snapshots and
the lack of "return" (it was broken). And with gcc-3.4.2 (broken).
And... well, you get the idea. So, if you're willing to deal with all
those "bugs" and forum posts on your own, or with your fellow intrepid
"emerge -U" users, I'm sure neither I nor any of the other -U detractors
will mind it staying.

The pertinent question here, of course, is: are you willing to do that?
I think I know the answer to that already. I'll give you a hint as to
the workload involved there: you'll be getting more bug report e-mails
and forum PMs than you can conceivably read.

So yeah, I'll burn you at the stake ;-p Be aware that this is the
position held by someone who's been a dev for not that long but who's
been one of the mainstays of the Portage & Programming forum for a good
two years. It's users that "-U" hurts, not devs.

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>>
>> Yes I know about editing package.keywords, but how much of a PITA is
>> that to have to add an entry for every package you emerge that is masked
>> for one reason or another.
>
>
> The pertinent question here, of course, is: are you willing to do
> that? I think I know the answer to that already. I'll give you a hint
> as to the workload involved there: you'll be getting more bug report
> e-mails and forum PMs than you can conceivably read.
>
> So yeah, I'll burn you at the stake ;-p Be aware that this is the
> position held by someone who's been a dev for not that long but who's
> been one of the mainstays of the Portage & Programming forum for a
> good two years. It's users that "-U" hurts, not devs.

Anyway for everyone who reads the manual the workaround (or better way
to do) is the PORTAGE_OVERLAY copy the ebuild. Put the packages you need
there the way you want them. Then again if goes really wrong don't
bother the devs...

Phil

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