Hi all Currently I am in a process of desperately getting rid of libpng14 library leftovers. cave fix-linkage ..., lafilefixer, find a missing dependency in some of ebuilds, report to Gentoo team, find a "recursive" fix-linkage necessity, loop :) Meanwhile even my graphical login manager would not start :)
That's the common thing for a gentooer, right? Gentoo on server is especially painful because of that. So the problem is that Gentoo/portage/paludis do not support transactional merging. I mean I'd like to have a following workflow: 1. Start a install transaction. 2. Emerge all the packages/dependencies necessary. 3. Resolve all conflicts/leftovers/revdeps necessary. 4. Commit install transaction onto /. Everything in one go. So unless everything is ready for merging your main root does not change. You can continue to work, use your X, browser :), and even do not afraid of sudden kernel reboot/crash. So, that's kind of wishful thinking so far. Can we make it happen? I think we can make something similar with the help of aufs and a bit of help from cave. So plan is: 1. Create a chroot directory using aufs copy-on-write functionality. This chroot will be seen as a view of root directory, but all changes won't touch the main root, but "accumulate" in aufs branch. 2. Start installing/removing/whatever activity in cave with chroot as a parameter/mode. 3. Resolve all conflicts/leftovers/revdeps necessary. 4. Merge aufs changes back to main root. 5. Kill chroot. I guess it should work. And it looks like cave already has some chroot support in place. Even though it's somehow not documented. And I guess this nice functionality can be even made part of paludis. But that's up to you of course. Please give suggestions. -- Regards, Denis Golovan _______________________________________________ paludis-user mailing list paludis-user@lists.exherbo.org http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user
