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| From: | "Bryan Ãstergaard" <kloeri@g.o> |
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
| Subject: | [gentoo-dev] Beware of the portage cache! |
| Date: | Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:15:19 |
| Message-Id: | 20060712131120.GK28946@woodpecker.gentoo.org |
| 1 | Hi all. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Just a quick reminder that you can only rely on static things in most |
| 4 | top-level variables in ebuilds. See |
| 5 | http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/portage-cache/index.html |
| 6 | for details. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | For a "real world" example on how to break the cache see |
| 9 | http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/media-tv/xmltv/ (every |
| 10 | version <= 0.5.39 relies on XMLTV_OPTS from the environment). |
| 11 | |
| 12 | The issue is fixed in newer versions and there should already be a bug |
| 13 | to stable those newer versions and get rid of the broken versions. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Regards, |
| 16 | Bryan Østergaard |
| 17 | -- |
| 18 | gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |