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Re: [gentoo-alt] Performing Global Updates message

Alan Hourihane
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:42:38 -0700

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 12:37 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> 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

Don't think so, as the statvfs call is only made to check there's enough
storage space. No date/time checking.

Alan.