On Thursday 15 January 2015 17:27:29 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Secondly, today's sync fetched thirty thousand files, nearly all in > > metadata, yet nothing needed upgrading. Is this caused by careless > > editing? I've noticed before that sed /g alters the time stamp of all > > files it looks in, regardless of whether it changes anything. > > Most likely an eclass used by many packages was changed. That leads to > metadata regeneration for all these packages. > > This is a good candidate: > > 14 Jan 2015; Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> eutils.eclass: > prune_libtool_files: properly reset variables for following loop > iterations.
I see what you mean - thanks for the explanation. -- Rgds Peter.
