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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:06:49
Message-Id: 1339005832.2706.48.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue by Ciaran McCreesh
1 El mié, 06-06-2012 a las 18:19 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió:
2 > On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:32:08 +0200
3 > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
4 > > > We do? Please tell us. I was under the impression that we still
5 > > > didn't fully know what the problem was.
6 > >
7 > > Well, could you please let me know how to handle some issues already
8 > > mentioned? For example:
9 > > - Rebuild dbus-glib and gobject-introspection after major glib update.
10 > > - Rebuild x11 drivers after xorg-update
11 >
12 > Those are the ones we probably do understand. You just up the SLOT (and
13 > if you really need to, use blockers between slots, although this is
14 > discouraged in favour of writing better ebuilds), and everything that
15 > build+run-deps upon these things uses := dependencies.
16 >
17 > > - Rebuild python/perl/ocaml stuff after python/perl/ocaml update
18 >
19 > That depends. If you only have to do it after an upgrade, same
20 > solution. If you have to do it with a rebuild too, then that's one of
21 > the situations I claim we don't fully understand because no-one has
22 > specified what the exact general problem is (although lots of people
23 > have looked at one particular case and assumed that their case holds
24 > for everything, which isn't true).
25 >
26
27 I think they are only needed on upgrades, not rebuilds, but I cannot
28 assure that, probably their maintainers will know better :)

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