Re: [gentoo-dev] The new Portage Job System

[Dan Armak]

On Saturday 11 August 2001 21:11, you wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:05:01PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In accordance with drobbins' wishes, the discussion of the new Portage
> > job system moves to gentoo-dev. This is a quick summary of the discussion
> > on #gentoo yesterday.
>
> IMHO, this is overkill.  We just need a way of executing certain jobs once;
> specifically, jobs that update the /var/db/pkg structure so that moved
> packages aren't remerged.  I don't want to create something huge to do
> this.

drobbins, I think you're right. An important point is that we need to 
complete the kde/gnome move quickly. I have already copied the kde packages 
to their new locations, but kept the copies in the old olocations also. The 
system is therefore in a limbo.

Emerging all of kde isn't a problem, but since I changed several ebuilds to 
depend on the new locations, emerging them would remerge kde.

Worse, after remerging kde, /var/db/pkg would have e.g. both kde-apps/foo and 
kde-base/foo registered. Then, when my script was run on such a database, 
there would be problems and I'd have to make special provisions in the script.

The point is that we need either to complete the move quickly - even if it 
means not using jobs, or not iplementing jobs fully - or to backtrack and 
return kde to its original state until we can get the job system operational.



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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel