On 01/18/2018 07:34 AM, Lars Wendler wrote: > Hi Anthony, > [...] > > well, I never did anything like that but regarding the dependency > calculation... how about something like > > emerge -1OKanv $(qlist -CISq) > > (--oneshot --nodeps --usepkgonly --ask --noreplace --verbose) > > which simply omits dependency calculations, only takes into account > available binary packages and doesn't replace same versions? > Of course this requires all installed packages really being available as > binpkgs. > Since all the installations are the same, as long as you provide a sane > set of binpkgs, dependency calculation should not matter anyway. > The only issue I can think of is that a system might become broken if > the update gets interrupted before all packages have been updated. > > Kind regards >
TTBOMK, this will fail also if there is a slot change. For instance, with the recent autoconf-2.69 move from :0 to :2.69, dependency resolution would have resulted softblock, thus removing :0 and then merging :2.69 automatically. with a --nodeps, :2.69 would attempt to merge without removing :0 for this package, resulting in an emerge failure. -- NP-Hardass
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