On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:57:07 +0530, Abhay Kedia wrote: > > version _after_ the new version has been merged into place. One > > possible solution would be to have a special feature that, when > > enabled, allows portage to automatically unmerge an old version > > _before_ the new one is installed (with protection against unmerging > > system packages of course). > > > That is no solution AT ALL!!! What if portage unmerges the package and > while compiling the new package it gets into an error? You are left > with no installed packages.
Portage could remove the old package after compilation ebuild package-new.ebuild compile ebuild package-old.ebuild unmerge ebuild package-new.ebuild install This would reduce the chances of something bad happening, but not remove it altogether. So it would have to package up the old files first and re-install them if the new install failed, more than a little messy IMO. -- Neil Bothwick Borg -- James Borg -- licensed to assimilate.
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