On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Tom Cooksey wrote:
On 1/18/09, Ciaran McCreesh <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:29:31 -0500
"Tom Cooksey" <[email protected]> wrote:
After a bit of investigation, I've found the cause of the problem is
because a lot of the packages I've installed have not been added to
world. This would include all the kde4 meta packages I've installed.
I'm just wondering under what circumstances (other than -1) does
paludis not add things to world? I'm trying to work out what I did so
I don't do it again.
Paludis will not add to world if:
* you specify -1
* your dependency specification includes any operators or restrictions
* the build process fails midway-through (even if some of your
specified targets succeeded)
So Paludis _should_ add packages to world, even if they are being
upgraded?
I have no idea what I did before to make paludis not add the packages to
world... I guess I'll never know now.
Also keep in mind that paludis won't add things that were only installed
due to dependencies.
As an example, I have app-editors/emacs installed already, without the
'hesiod' use flag. So, I enable 'hesiod' via use.conf. Then:
# paludis -i emacs
[...]
These packages will be installed:
* net-dns/hesiod [N 3.0.2-r2]
build_options: -optional_tests -split strip
"system which uses existing DNS functionality to provide access to
databases of information that changes infrequently"
31.22 kBytes to download
* app-editors/emacs :22 [R 22.3-r1] <target>
X -Xaw3d alsa gif gtk -gzip-el hesiod* jpeg kerberos -motif png -sound
source spell tiff -toolkit-scroll-bars xpm build_options: -optional_tests
[...]
But, I 'Ctrl+C' out of it, and the "resume command" only lists
'app-editor/emacs':
Resume command: /usr/bin/paludis --log-level qa --install
--add-to-world-spec 'app-editors/emacs' --serialised 0.25
'package;=net-dns/hesiod-3.0.2-r2:0::gentoo;installed;has_all_deps;P'
'package;=app-editors/emacs-22.3-r1:22::gentoo;installed;has_all_deps;P'
This is intentional behavior, since, hypothetically, a later version of
emacs might include built-in hesiod support, and --install world shouldn't
need to do anything with net-dns/hesiod. But, it's sometimes confusing,
since hesiod, something you installed through normal methods, isn't added
to world.
Glancing through the output of paludis --pretend --uninstall-unused, about
half of the packages listed fall into this category for me (things that I
don't want removed, but I never explicitly installed). And another quarter
are things that I installed explicitly, but needed a specific version
(e.g. postgresql-server), and never added to world.
Best,
Ben
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