Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Performing Global Updates message
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:42:35
Message-Id: 1255430628.12403.15.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Performing Global Updates message by Fabian Groffen
1 On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 12:37 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 13-10-2009 11:09:11 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
3 > > > Yes it happens everytime, regardless of sync.
4 > > >
5 > > > For example, if I do say....
6 > > >
7 > > > emerge net-ftp/lftp
8 > > >
9 > > > It does a bunch of updates before it starts "Calculating dependencies".
10 > > >
11 > > > And for
12 > > >
13 > > > emerge --sync
14 > > >
15 > > > It does a bunch of updates before the sync happens, then a bunch of them
16 > > > again after it's finished.
17 > > >
18 > > > Alan.
19 > > >
20 > > >
21 > >
22 > > Here's what happens with an emerge --sync....
23 >
24 > could this be related to statvfs? Sounds like Portage can't see that
25 > the files still have the same timestamp, and hence reparses them
26
27 Don't think so, as the statvfs call is only made to check there's enough
28 storage space. No date/time checking.
29
30 Alan.

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