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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Thoughts about broken package handling
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:37:31
Message-Id: 4E0728E3.50004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Thoughts about broken package handling by Stuart Longland
1 On 06/26/11 14:27, Stuart Longland wrote:
2 > On 06/26/11 15:44, Benedikt Böhm wrote:
3 >> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Stuart Longland <redhatter@g.o> wrote:
4 >>> - revdep-rebuild (handles packages broken by soname changes, etc)
5 >>
6 >> solved by preserved-libs in portage-2.2
7 >
8 > Hmmm, except that portage-2.2 isn't stable yet... indeed it isn't even
9 > out of alpha yet. Not going to unleash that on my production systems.
10
11 Here's a little secret:
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13 The only code differences between portage 2.1 and 2.2 appear to be one
14 file managing features, so 2.1 just has preserved-rebuild and some of
15 the set support disabled. But if you trust 2.1 enough to use it you also
16 shouldn't have a problem with 2.2.
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18 There's still a few silly bugs with preserved-rebuild (corner cases like
19 downgrades and stupid build systems), but I've not had any problematic
20 behaviour in quite a long time ...
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