Stopping Entropy Diff Scan during system recompile [Solved]

[alkaliv2]

I've been attempting to do a system recompile and it is going very well so far. *fingers crossed* One tiny issue I'm running into following the unofficial world update article in the wiki is that trying to streamline the updates entropy does a package scan between each package and it requires user interaction for a very, very long update process. I've looked through the entropy.conf file and didn't run across any options to disable it. I tried equo remove entropy and that just simply told me no. I them attempted to merge it (because it wasn't merged according to portage) and then emerge -C entropy. None of these methods worked. Is there something I am missing? I'd like to know that when I go to work in 3 hours that it won't just sit at a prompt the whole time. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not new to linux but I'm definitely new to the sabayon gentoo combination and I have no problem with just being pointed to the right wiki page. Thanks in advance.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Is the following thread of any help?

viewtopic.php?f=76&t=15140

[alkaliv2]

That is exactly what I was looking for thank you. The only issue remaining is that I can't figure out a way to remove entropy. You can't do it through Equo and when I emerged it and then unmerged it, it still remained. Do you know of a a method that will get rid of the entropy program?


Edit:

I googled entropy removal and I found the command emerge -C entropy equo spritz entropy-update-applet

But initially when I used that command it told me it wasn't found on my system so I threw in an equo remove entropy it told me it was a vital file that could not be removed. My next step was to emerge all four and then remove them one at a time. All I did after I emerged them was emerge -C entropy hoping to just get the text front-end out of the way. Do I need to unmerge all of them for entropy to stop showing up in my updates?

[wolfden]

emerge -C packagename

[alkaliv2]

I edited my above post with the outcome of unmerging entropy.

[wolfden]

I edited my above post with the outcome of unmerging entropy.

are you emerge -C entropy equo spritz ?

I know this works as I have done it in the past

[alkaliv2]

I finally got home and was able to try removing all three. Removing all of them with emerge and rebooting seems to have put a stop to entropy. I too can sleep now. Thank you very much for your help. Let the world update begin!

[Robert H. Williams]

Hi! Is it possible however, to pass 'y' or 'yes' to the diff scan to reduce
the interactive hit on install/remove time and allow user to do something
else while the program runs??
TIA,
Have A Healthy, Prosperous Day!
---robert

[DDM]

I just did this:

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cd /usr/local/bin
sudo wget www.sabayonlinux.org/sabayon/scripts/fix_gentoosync.py
sudo chmod +x fix_gentoosync.py
sudo touch sabsync
sudo chmod +x sabsync
sudo gedit sabsync

then I added this in gedit

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#!/bin/bash

layman -S
emerge --sync|grep ebuild
python /usr/local/bin/fix_gentoosync.py


So now instead of emerge --sync, I run sabsync. I threw a layman sync in there just for the hell of it, and | grep ebuild to make the sync more readable. Now packages are "fixed" for the gentoosync. I haven't figured out to postpone gentoosync until emerge has finished, or at least auto-confirm it so now I can go do stuff and not have to wait for differential scans. Those are VERY annoying.