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.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
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