On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 6:04 AM Daniel Cordero <gentoo.catal...@xxoo.ws> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 03:21:52PM -0500, Matt Turner wrote: > > There should be no need for custom updates, and if there are exceptional > > circumstances the new --enter-chroot option can be used. > > > > There is still a need, and if I'm reading these patches right, > --enter-chroot would not satisfy that need. > > enter-chroot is interactive, and, depending on hardware speed, the time > between kicking off the catalyst run and when the chroot shell is > invoked may be some time for a human operator to monitor. > > It also adds non-deterministic, un-reproducible behaviour to a build. > Having it in the spec file at least means it is included in a build > artifact.
Can you think of a case where update_seed would be needed? I tried, and couldn't think of anything, but I might not be imaginative enough. My thinking is that with @changed-subslots, there's essentially no need to update the seed stage further. But there have been some exceptional cases that don't really fit update_seed (e.g., things that cannot be fixed with emerge ...).
