Re: [gentoo-alt] portage, openpty and interix

[Alan Hourihane]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 14:39 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:30 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > On 23-10-2009 14:28:17 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:14 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > > On 23-10-2009 11:00:14 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > > > On 23-10-2009 10:15:11 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
> > > > > > it seems that the code using os.pipe() seems either broken or the
> > > > > > interix implementation of that python code is broken... whichever 
> > > > > > it is
> > > > > > - it's bad ...  :(
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Could you (grobian), please add "Interix" to the existing white 
> > > > > > list for
> > > > > > openpty platforms?
> > > > > 
> > > > > geez... Interix really sucks.  Anyway, if you add it to 701, does it
> > > > > work then, or does it hang in that case?
> > > > 
> > > > hmm that check in portage looks totally broken to me, and makes
> > > > sparc/solaris hang too...
> > > 
> > > Which area is this as I've noticed FreeMiNT's emerging process takes
> > > much longer at the moment.
> > 
> > usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py
> > 
> > look for openpty
> > 
> > there is a bit of code to test whether this can work or not also
> > involving python 3.1
> 
> O.k. I'll take a look.

This looks fine on FreeMiNT.

I've still got two problems with the current portage though.

1. Constantly updating mtimedb on every invocation of emerge.
2. Very slow.

Argh!

Maybe I need to go back and find out which one it broke on. But I feel
it's probably before 14487 which is the last in the tree.

Alan.