Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-10-08 Thread Markos Chandras
On 09/27/2013 09:24 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > would anybody please be so kind to explain to me the rational used by > portage to re-emerge > some packages. > > I've installed portage 2.2.7 and when I try to emerge, say, > app-shells/zsh-completions > it re-emerges (emerge -vp shows 'rR

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-10-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.10.2013 16:04, schrieb Khumba: > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ignore-built-slot-operator-deps=y" > > in make.conf to disable slot operator rebuilds (and allow any > associated breakage). Portage still seems to keep track of subslot > dependency rebuilds while this flag is enabled, so that you ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-10-08 Thread Khumba
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:13:31 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > Am 28.09.2013 00:22, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > > This only works right if the ebuild maintainer is on the ball, watches > > Changelogs for the DEPENDS packages and put the proper metadata in the > > ebuild. You can imagine how t

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-10-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.09.2013 00:22, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > This only works right if the ebuild maintainer is on the ball, watches > Changelogs for the DEPENDS packages and put the proper metadata in the > ebuild. You can imagine how this can work out very very well when done > right, and if the maintainer make

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-09-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/09/2013 13:18, Philip Webb wrote: > 130927 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: >> you are encountering a relatively new feature of portage >> that is supposed to make revdep-rebuild & emerge @preserve-rebuild obsolete. >> The logic is, that if you update a package, other packages >> depending on th

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-09-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 07:18:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > I have found sometimes that Portage wants to remerge LO or similar, > but in fact the existing installed version continues to work regardless. That's because you aren't using the broken bits. But that's fine as long as it continues to work

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-09-27 Thread Philip Webb
130927 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > you are encountering a relatively new feature of portage > that is supposed to make revdep-rebuild & emerge @preserve-rebuild obsolete. > The logic is, that if you update a package, other packages > depending on this package will automatically rebuild to preve

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-09-27 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:28:43AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > Here is a full example: > emerge -auv1 app-shells/zsh-completions > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies - * Digest verification failed: > * /LOCAL/local/portage/dev-python/wxp

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-09-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 09/27/2013 11:09:11 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 27/09/2013 10:24, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > would anybody please be so kind to explain to me the rational used by > portage to re-emerge > some packages. > > I've installed portage 2.2.7 and when I try to emerge, say, > app-shells/zsh-com

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-09-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/09/2013 10:24, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > would anybody please be so kind to explain to me the rational used by > portage to re-emerge > some packages. > > I've installed portage 2.2.7 and when I try to emerge, say, > app-shells/zsh-completions > it re-emerges (emerge -vp shows 'rR')

[gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-09-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, would anybody please be so kind to explain to me the rational used by portage to re-emerge some packages. I've installed portage 2.2.7 and when I try to emerge, say, app-shells/zsh-completions it re-emerges (emerge -vp shows 'rR') several packages including, i.e., app-office/libreof