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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: add a compiler-version entry to pkg db
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:21:28
Message-Id: 20081209192124.GD2455@comet
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: add a compiler-version entry to pkg db by Federico Ferri
1 On 01:44 Tue 09 Dec , Federico Ferri wrote:
2 > today I hit this annoyance, because my laptop hung in the middle of an
3 > 'emerge -e @world' (checking that my world set compiles with
4 > gcc-4.3... stopped at ~ 300 of 700 :S )
5 >
6 > I was looking for an entry in /var/db/pkg/<cat/pkg>/ that could have
7 > told me the compiler used to build the package, but couldn't find any.
8 > indeed it would be a fairly useful feature to have, both for testing
9 > purposes, and for user's everyday maintenance.
10 >
11 > please criticize this with anything constructive you can think of.
12
13 As I mentioned on IRC, I think this isn't a very general use case (given
14 the existence of --resume, --keep-going, etc.) so code to accomplish it
15 would be better put into a custom portage bashrc than into portage
16 proper.
17
18 ISTR that you could no longer resume for some reason. Perhaps what you
19 really wanted was a way to save the resume list across multiple emerges?
20
21 --
22 Thanks,
23 Donnie
24
25 Donnie Berkholz
26 Developer, Gentoo Linux
27 Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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