Handbook Talk:AMD64/Working/Portage
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A comment [[User:Larry|Larry]] 13:52, 13 May 2024 (UTC) : A reply [[User:Sally|Sally]] 10:40, 5 November 2024 (UTC) :: Your reply ~~~~
Fix incorrect category for package
In the example pointing to kde-meta:
It should be https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/kde-apps/kde-meta and not https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/kde-base/kde-meta
--ng0 (talk)
- Thank you, ng0 . I'll make an update! --Maffblaster (talk) 19:38, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
"Important" box
A tiny issue, but "This does not mean that re-synchronization of the tree several times in a short time period!" doesn't make sense. Someone should delete the "that". Ptolom (talk) 19:26, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
- Fixed. Reworded entirely, actually. Thanks. --Maffblaster (talk) 00:44, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Truecrypt references
app-crypt/truecrypt is no longer in the portage tree (404 error). It should be removed from the example. Fturco (talk) 18:57, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
- That package/application is not referenced anywhere on this page, however it is cited in some non-English versions of the Handbook. - dcljr (talk) 10:19, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
- Nothing to discuss here. Only translators update the translations and clear out old references to Truecrypt. --Maffblaster (talk) 00:45, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Tiny correction in "Finding installed package documentation"
I just think that the code part beiginning with "ls -l /usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-1.0.14_rc1" must be place between " the USE flags chapter." and "Once the package installed" (one paragraph before). — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hogren (talk • contribs) 11 February 2017
- I'm trying to see what's wrong with this and it looks okay to me. The command to emerge it is listed directly before the ls -l command. --Maffblaster (talk) 04:51, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
HTTP to HTTPS
Please HTTPS instead of HTTP for the following links:
Fturco (talk) 10:47, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
- Fixed. --Maffblaster (talk) 00:47, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Equery example
In section "Finding installed package documentation" I would use the following command instead:
user $equery files --filter=doc alsa-lib* Searching for alsa-lib ... * Contents of media-libs/alsa-lib-1.1.3: /usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-1.1.3/ChangeLog.xz /usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-1.1.3/NOTES.xz /usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-1.1.3/TODO.xz /usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-1.1.3/asoundrc.txt.xz
Fturco (talk) 10:58, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
- I think this is simple, non-hackish way to do it. Gets my vote. --Zucca (talk) 13:34, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
- Turns out I've never used the
--filteroption for equery before. This will make a nice addition! I'll add it. Thanks! --Maffblaster (talk) 19:29, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
- Turns out I've never used the
Add links to FSF and OSI websites
"In this case, "free" is mostly defined by the FSF and OSI." Why not adding links to their websites?
Fturco (talk) 11:09, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
- Links added. Thanks! --Maffblaster (talk) 03:24, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
Softwares
"Some softwares are only available for a few architectures."
I'm not a native English speaker, but "softwares" seems horrible to me. It should be simply "software", without the trailing "s".
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/does-software-have-a-plural-form.231221/
Fturco (talk) 11:19, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
- Fixed. --Maffblaster (talk) 00:49, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Link to bugs.gentoo.org
- "If not, please file a bug on Gentoo's bugtracking system."
- "If you believe the package does work file a bug at our Bugzilla website."
- "Ask the architecture porting team to test the package or test it for them and report the findings on our Bugzilla website."
- "Please check Bugzilla if the issue is known and if not, please report it."
- "It might also be beneficial to check Bugzilla to see if the issue is known and if not, report it."
- "Check Bugzilla and see if anyone has reported the problem yet or ask around on #gentoo (IRC)."
For each one of the previous sentences I would add a link to https://bugs.gentoo.org/.
Fturco (talk) 11:24, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
- Too many (redundant) links can be a bad thing. I'll add a few more links. --Maffblaster (talk) 03:29, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
Fix sentence
"This does not mean that re-synchronization of the tree several times in a short time period!"
I would fix the previous sentence as follows:
"This does not mean that you can re-synchronize the tree several times in a short time period!"
Fturco (talk) 11:40, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
- Someone else pointed this out above. I have reworded the entire paragraph. Thanks! --Maffblaster (talk) 00:51, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Incorrect Portage package directory name in "License" section
In this sentence "Running emerge --search package/category will show the package's license." should be category/package
--Aar (talk) 00:06, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Location of licenses in "Licenses" section seems to be incorrect
It's /usr/portage/licenses/ on my system, not /var/db/repos/gentoo/licenses/ as is explained in this section (I also remember other wiki articles referring to /var/db/repos/gentoo which appears to be /usr/portage on my system, but I can't find any right now). Barteks2x (talk) 00:24, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
- Really it should be "$(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo)/licenses/" but the transition is difficult to explain. Old users will have the old path, new users will have the new path. --Grknight (talk) 13:38, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
I also think it would be good to write up a change somewhere in the Handbook to mention the default directory location changes. I just added Portage#Default_Gentoo_ebuild_repository_location_change. Perhaps we can link to that location... Not sure if the title of the section should be change, though... --Maffblaster (talk) 04:53, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
- This issue is now history can has been resolved. --Maffblaster (talk) 18:33, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
"emaint --auto sync" in "Updating the system" section
Should the generic command to sync Portage not now be "emaint --auto sync", rather than "emerge --sync", as per Project:Portage/Sync ?
-- Ris (talk) 09:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
- As I understand it, either will work, since emerge --sync is just now an alias for emaint --auto sync. I do not believe there are plans to remove the alias in the future, so it is OK to leave whatever is in the text as-is. --Maffblaster (talk) 18:36, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
Updating the system and --ask
> In the next example, the --ask option is also used
--ask is not used in either of examples in the "Updating the system" section. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by M010CH (talk • contribs)
- Fixed by Brian Evans (grknight) in this change: Special:Diff/1167881/1167883. --Maffblaster (talk) 18:17, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
Blocked packages - wrong packages in description
> In the given example, one can opt not to install postfix or to remove ssmtp first
Instead of postfix/ssmtp, should be i3/i3-gaps. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by M010CH (talk • contribs)
- Fixed by Brian Evans (grknight) in this change: Special:Diff/1049827/1167881. --Maffblaster (talk) 18:18, 23 November 2022 (UTC)