On Tuesday 28 August 2007 19:56, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > 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.
I see. Thanks for the clarifications! -- Åsmund Grammeltvedt Snap TV -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
