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From: George Shapovalov <george@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] AUTOCLEAN="yes" destroyed my system (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage wants to downgrade)
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 07:37:55
Message-Id: 200212152336.48755.george@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] AUTOCLEAN="yes" destroyed my system (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage wants to downgrade) by Cong
1 Yes, this is indeed not very good behaviour. It should be remedied along the
2 sticky flag dependency development. Please submit the proper bug report (I
3 did not find one in a quick search for "autoclean") so that this issue won't
4 get forgotten.
5
6 Meanwhile you should probably choose to stay clear from combining all three
7 of:
8 1. KEYWORDS="~arch" emerge pkgname (adding "~arch" to make.conf should be
9 safe in *that* respect, though clearly you may not want to do this for other
10 reasons)
11 2. AUTOCLEAN="yes" and
12 3. emerge -u world
13 (basically, this is a classical "choose any two" situation).
14
15 George
16
17
18 On Sunday 15 December 2002 06:09, Cong wrote:
19 > Recently portage behaves really strangely on my system.
20 > When I do "emerge clean", Portage trys to clean newest packages
21 > For example with phoenix-bin:
22 >
23 > # emerge net-www/phoenix-bin
24 > SUCCESS
25 > # emerge net-www/phoenix-bin -p
26 > [ebuild R ] net-www/phoenix-bin-0.4-r2
27 > # emerge net-www/phoenix-bin -cp
28 >
29 > >>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:
30 >
31 > net-www/phoenix-bin
32 > selected: 0.4-r2
33 > protected: 20021121
34 > omitted: none
35 >
36 > And the problem is that this happened with sys-apps/portage itself,
37 > i.e, after upgrade previous version to portage-2.0.45-r5, portage
38 > cleaned sys-apps/portage-2.0.45-r5 ( it tried to kept
39 > sys-apps/portage-2.0.45-r4) and portage got broken. Same things
40 > happened with almost all packages: gcc, glibc, xfree ....
41 >
42 > Now I am forced to put AUTOCLEAN="no" in /etc/make.conf .
43 >
44 > / Cong
45
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