Bug 16556

Summary:	"emerge rsync" is ambiguous, differentiate between "net-misc/rsync" and "emerge sync"?
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Jonathan Hitchcock <vhata-gentoo>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	vhata-gentoo
Priority:	High
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jonathan Hitchcock 2003-02-28 08:41:57 UTC

In order to install/upgrade the "rsync" package, one needs to fully specify 
the package name:  "emerge net-misc/rsync", because otherwise portage 
synchronises its portage tree with the rsync server (a la "emerge sync").  
Since, as far as I can tell, most people use "emerge sync" when they want to 
do this, and it's more intuitive, and more general (if we switch to CVS, for 
example, and it is what is used in "emerge --help", and in the installation 
manual, would it not be a Good Thing (tm) if we lost the "rsync" alias to 
"sync"?

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-02-28 16:18:48 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2365 ***