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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:56:29
Message-Id: 200601271648.41853.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable by MIkey
1 On Friday 27 January 2006 16:08, MIkey wrote:
2 > This bug (39318) has persisted since 2004-01-25, with the most recent bite
3 > reported on 2005-12-07.  It is not a problem unique to stage1 or stage3.
4 > Since portage apparently does not always handle circular dependencies
5 > gracefully, the problem is not solved by a stage3 install, it is deferred.
6
7 Not deferred, avoided, circumvented. Not the best solution, but it works.
8 Stage 1 with the standard useflags does not have the problem either, but with
9 some useflags it has. As such many people fail when using stage 1. The reason
10 it is no longer suggested in the documentation.
11 >
12 > Regardless, it can more easily be accounted for in bootstrap.sh than
13 > tearing up portage completely.  It still has to be accounted for to build
14 > the official stage3 releases.  Lastly, for some reason I have not run into
15 > this particular problem when building from stage1 for a while now.
16
17 You have different useflags than others. Yours don't trigger it. Bootstrap.sh
18 is for solving the initial bootstrapping interdependencies, not random
19 circular dependencies between packages.
20
21 Paul
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24 Paul de Vrieze
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