[gentoo-catalyst] concerning USE flags

[gentoo-catalyst] concerning USE flags

[Lanza Fabrizio]

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 Hi, I'm sorry if this question might have been asked a thousand times,
but I cannot find a solution. I also read the howtos that I could find,
included the documentation that is currently removed from the gentoo
site.
 
 The question is, where do I tell Catalyst the correct USE flags for a
specific program?
 
 I tried in portage.config. It did not catch it.
 I put it in
/var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/mycd/livecd-stage1.../etc/portage/package.use.
Same.
 I put it in
/var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/mycd/livecd-stage2.../etc/portage/package.use.
Same.
 
 I know that Catalyst does not read package.use as expected. But I don't
see how to do then.
 
 I suspected that, if I run catalyst again without removing the whole
livecd-stage, it won't rebuild my package with the new USE flags. So, I
removed the whole livecd-stage2, modified the USE flags, added my
package that needed a rebuild with the correct flags, and rebuilt
livecd-stage2 completely. But still it was built with the wrong flags
and failed.
 
 I will appreciate if you can point me to the right direction.
 Thank you!

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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] concerning USE flags

[Andrew Gaffney]

Lanza Fabrizio wrote:
>  Hi, I'm sorry if this question might have been asked a thousand times, 
> but I cannot find a solution. I also read the howtos that I could find, 
> included the documentation that is currently removed from the gentoo site.
>  
>  The question is, where do I tell Catalyst the correct USE flags for a 
> specific program?
>  
>  I tried in portage.config. It did not catch it.
>  I put it in 
> /var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/mycd/livecd-stage1.../etc/portage/package.use. Same.
>  I put it in 
> /var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/mycd/livecd-stage2.../etc/portage/package.use. Same.
>  
>  I know that Catalyst does not read package.use as expected. But I don't 
> see how to do then.
>  
>  I suspected that, if I run catalyst again without removing the whole 
> livecd-stage, it won't rebuild my package with the new USE flags. So, I 
> removed the whole livecd-stage2, modified the USE flags, added my 
> package that needed a rebuild with the correct flags, and rebuilt 
> livecd-stage2 completely. But still it was built with the wrong flags 
> and failed.
>  
>  I will appreciate if you can point me to the right direction.
>  Thank you!

Are you using 'livecd/use: -* ...' in your spec? if so, this will cause portage 
to completely ignore package.use. This is "normal" behavior and has nothing to 
do with catalyst.

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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] concerning USE flags

[Steve Dommett]

On Thursday 06 March 2008, Lanza Fabrizio wrote:
>  The question is, where do I tell Catalyst the correct USE flags for a
> specific program?
In a package.use files in the portage_confdir specified in your .spec files.

> I removed the whole livecd-stage2, modified the USE flags, added my
> package that needed a rebuild with the correct flags, and rebuilt 
> livecd-stage2 completely. But still it was built with the wrong flags
> and failed.
Did you also delete Catalyst's autoresume points?  The '-a' switch does this.

Cheers,
  Steve.
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R: [gentoo-catalyst] concerning USE flags

[Lanza Fabrizio]

>Are you using 'livecd/use: -* ...' in your spec? if so, this will cause
portage 
to completely ignore package.use. This is "normal" behavior and has
nothing to 
do with catalyst.

Yes, I use 'livecd/use: -* ...' in livecd-stage1. I forgot to mention: I
also have put my new USE flags in livecd/use, but it still caught the
old flags, apparently. I didn't rm the whole livecd-stage1 though. I
just re-run catalyst over it.
I also tried removing the package from livecd-stage1 from portage db of
installed packages:
rm -fr
/var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/mycd/livecd-stage2.../var/db/pkg/mygroup/mypkg/
That should have forced a recompile of mypkg, but I suspect that
catalyst might still find the previous compilation and thus just do a
'make install'.

Do you think I should recompile the whole livecd-stage1?
Is there a way to selectively remove specific package
objects/compilation? I couldn't find where they are stored.

>In a package.use files in the portage_confdir specified in your .spec
files.

Yes. My spec file contains this:
portage_confdir: /usr/src/mycd/portage.config
In portage.config I have package.use

>Did you also delete Catalyst's autoresume points?  The '-a' switch does
this.

Yes, I did, but I run rm -fr
/var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/mycd/.autoresume...(livecd2)/

Thank you for your input. I'm starting to see some new possibilities. I
will keep you informed about the solution that will work.
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