Re: [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 11/11] catalyst: Remove update_seed spec option

[Matt Turner]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 9:58 AM Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 6:04 AM Daniel Cordero <gentoo.catalyst@××××.ws> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 03:21:52PM -0500, Matt Turner wrote:
> > > There should be no need for custom updates, and if there are exceptional
> > > circumstances the new --enter-chroot option can be used.
> > >
> >
> > There is still a need, and if I'm reading these patches right,
> > --enter-chroot would not satisfy that need.
> >
> > enter-chroot is interactive, and, depending on hardware speed, the time
> > between kicking off the catalyst run and when the chroot shell is
> > invoked may be some time for a human operator to monitor.
> >
> > It also adds non-deterministic, un-reproducible behaviour to a build.
> > Having it in the spec file at least means it is included in a build
> > artifact.
>
> Can you think of a case where update_seed would be needed? I tried,
> and couldn't think of anything, but I might not be imaginative enough.
>
> My thinking is that with @changed-subslots, there's essentially no
> need to update the seed stage further. But there have been some
> exceptional cases that don't really fit update_seed (e.g., things that
> cannot be fixed with emerge ...).

ping?