-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/11/2013 03:03 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Not sure this is the way to go. I'll have to think through the >>> implications. Consider your stage1 build dies with some stupid tree >>> breakage that you can fix in your portage snapshot and restart the >>> stage build. This is going to cause your stage to rebuild everything. >>> >>> Wouldn't disabling the use of binary packages during the seed stage >>> update fix this? >>> >>> >> I'm not sure I'd call rebuilding it every time a "fix" when you just >> rejected deleting the bad packages and rebuilding ONCE. > > I'm not sure what you mean. > > Updating the seed stage should only ever happen once. If that fails > and you don't have binary packages to fall back to on restarting, I > think that's an okay price to pay. Especially since it happens early > enough in the process and avoids potential problems that are only > noticed at the beginning of stage2. > > Oh, and if updating the seed stage fails... it was only rebuilding gcc > dependencies anyway. That's not so bad at all. (I don't care about > custom update commands and isn't something that we can fix) > >> As I said, the only proper fix is to update the toolchain to EAPI5. We >> could live in the dark ages forever, but I really don't think it helps >> anyone. > > That seems like a potentially good long term goal, but isn't something > that we can force through. > > We already don't BUILD any new packages during update_seed. Originally we did, I encountered issues and fixed it in e7ea409acb52b43e9ea141c57201f9f87673f7ba to prevent building of packages during update_seed.
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