Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Binary package dependencies and update_seed

["Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zerochaos@gentoo.org>]

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On 04/11/2013 03:03 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
> <zerochaos@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> Not sure this is the way to go. I'll have to think through the
>>> implications. Consider your stage1 build dies with some stupid tree
>>> breakage that you can fix in your portage snapshot and restart the
>>> stage build. This is going to cause your stage to rebuild everything.
>>>
>>> Wouldn't disabling the use of binary packages during the seed stage
>>> update fix this?
>>>
>>>
>> I'm not sure I'd call rebuilding it every time a "fix" when you just
>> rejected deleting the bad packages and rebuilding ONCE.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean.
> 
> Updating the seed stage should only ever happen once. If that fails
> and you don't have binary packages to fall back to on restarting, I
> think that's an okay price to pay. Especially since it happens early
> enough in the process and avoids potential problems that are only
> noticed at the beginning of stage2.
> 
> Oh, and if updating the seed stage fails... it was only rebuilding gcc
> dependencies anyway. That's not so bad at all. (I don't care about
> custom update commands and isn't something that we can fix)
> 
>> As I said, the only proper fix is to update the toolchain to EAPI5.  We
>> could live in the dark ages forever, but I really don't think it helps
>> anyone.
> 
> That seems like a potentially good long term goal, but isn't something
> that we can force through.
> 
> 
We already don't BUILD any new packages during update_seed.  Originally
we did, I encountered issues and fixed it in
e7ea409acb52b43e9ea141c57201f9f87673f7ba to prevent building of packages
during update_seed.

Thanks,
Zero
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