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mhodak Veteran
Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 1218
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Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 8:52 am Post subject: What does q-reinitialize do? |
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This is the message that I got after updating portage-utils:
Code: | /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize has been installed for convenience
If you wish for it to be automatically run at the end of every --sync:
# chmod +x /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize
Normally this should only take a few seconds to run but file systems
such as ext3 can take a lot longer. To disable, simply do:
# chmod -x /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize |
This sounds nice, but it does not say what does q-reinitialize do. Looking at the file, it calls command "q", but I am not familiar with "q". Can someone shed more light on this? Is "q-reinitialize" something I want to run after every sync?
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Genone Retired Dev
Joined: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 9507 Location: beyond the rim
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Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:31 am Post subject: |
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It updates the cache used by the portage-utils package (qfile, qdepends, qpkg, ...). If you don't use those you don't need to run q-reinitalize either. |
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kernelOfTruth Watchman
Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 6111 Location: Vienna, Austria; Germany; hello world :)
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cwr Veteran
Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 1969
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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Does anyone know who actually named the 'q' command, and whether or not
they have been shot for it? I sometimes invoke it via a typing error, and it
really has to be the most stupid piece of naming ever, even better that the
current networking renaming.
Will |
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