Bug 35035

Summary:	emerge --update --pretend rsync -> error
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	nachtklavier <nachtklavier>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	gurligebis
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description nachtklavier 2003-12-04 01:54:43 UTC

# emerge --update --pretend rsync
emerge: the "sync" action does not support "--pretend."

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Radek Podgorny 2003-12-04 02:14:32 UTC

The whole "rsync" to "sync" mapping should be IMHO dropped...

Radek

Comment 2 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-04 04:27:19 UTC

I think the command should be changed to something like portage-update , so the emerge command shouldn't be used for that.

Comment 3 nachtklavier 2003-12-04 04:32:24 UTC

mmh, reading the second comment, i'm not sure if i understand it correctly. i just want to see what happens when i'm updating the package "rsync"... so i think emerge gets confused by whatever and thinks i want to sync something.

Comment 4 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-04 04:51:38 UTC

yep, that is also what i mean.
But then what if there is added a package called sync, then that one wouldn't work any longer.
That is why I surgest that the emerge command should not be used for updating the portage tree.

Comment 5 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-04 05:35:21 UTC


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