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On 11/11/2015 21:35, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> Ongoing installation. I looked at 2 instances of |
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> "emerge -pv x11-base/xorg-server" and the order was somewhat different. |
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> Here are a couple of outputs, just a few seconds apart. Is this a bug |
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> or a feature? See attachments. |
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Emerge order is not deterministic, especially with parallel builds. The |
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reason is that it does not need to be according to the dep graph - if |
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two packages are at the same level and do not depend on each other, then |
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the order they are built in does not affect the final result. |
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Practically all parallel processing works this way. |
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What is deterministic, is that if you build the same set of packages |
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twice and even if portage does them in different order, the binaries |
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produced are functionally identical |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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