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110626 Stuart Longland wrote re his concept: |
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> Tool will be written in separate modules to handle: |
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> - ELF soname change breakage |
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> - Python module updates |
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> - Perl module updates |
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> - other checks that can cause broken packages... |
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> Each check is run in order, |
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> generating a list of packages that should be rebuilt. |
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> Having generated this list, it is then evaluated to sort the candidate |
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> packages into a suitable order for rebuilding. |
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> This is then passed to the package manager... three modes for rebuilds: |
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> - All-in-one-hit rebuild: What the tools presently do now. |
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> - One-by-one rebuild: For each package in the list, build each one |
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> individually... useful if Portage coughs up an error otherwise |
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> - Dump the list: allows people to handle it with their own tools |
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From a long-time user : +1 . |
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