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Re: [gentoo-alt] Performing Global Updates message

Fabian Groffen
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:37:06 -0700

On 13-10-2009 11:09:11 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > Yes it happens everytime, regardless of sync.
> > 
> > For example, if I do say....
> > 
> > emerge net-ftp/lftp
> > 
> > It does a bunch of updates before it starts "Calculating dependencies".
> > 
> > And for 
> > 
> > emerge --sync
> > 
> > It does a bunch of updates before the sync happens, then a bunch of them
> > again after it's finished.
> > 
> > Alan.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Here's what happens with an emerge --sync....

could this be related to statvfs?  Sounds like Portage can't see that
the files still have the same timestamp, and hence reparses them


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level