On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:51 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Åsmund Grammeltvedt wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 August 2007 16:32:39 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Åsmund Grammeltvedt wrote: > > > > Still, is it impossible for features to carry over from packages in the > > > > bootstrap stage and affecting depending packages before the dependency > > > > is reemerged, without this being a bug in the depending package? > > > > > > speaking generally, probably ... but here, it is a bug in attr, pure and > > > simple ... it should not be using the host libtool > > > > Ok, I'm mostly trying to justify messing with /var/db/pkg to myself. > > Cleaning it out and bootstrapping from there seems like it would reduce the > > impact of such bugs. > > then you'd hit things like portage going crazy over package collisions ... or > in the scenario where the older stage had an older version and the newer > version has different files so you're left with orphaned cruft ...
Correct. There is a reason that we moved *away* from removing the /var/db/pkg stuff for stage1. This is it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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