On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:36:44PM -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > On 07/10/2013 10:03 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 09:27:46PM -0700, Brian Dolbec wrote: > >> The other thing we needed to do was completely remove the use of > >> or building of binpkgs during the update_seed stage. Portage has > >> no capability to check binpkg linking to ensure the binpkg was > >> properly usable. > > Can somebody actually please implement this, to run before the > > binpkg merge phase? > Please be more specific, this is currently implemented... I was partially responding to dolsen's comment that it wasn't capable, as well as a discussion I had with somebody on the ChromeOS team a few months ago.
In the ChromeOS case, if a library was removed off the system, but Portage still thought it was there, and you went to install a binpkg that had an ELF dependency on the removed library, you'd have broken binaries on the system. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : [email protected] GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
