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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: properly handle metadata transfer on first sync of an empty tree (#96410)
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:21:53
Message-Id: 200508052020.54209.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: properly handle metadata transfer on first sync of an empty tree (#96410) by "Brian D. Harring"
1 On Friday 05 August 2005 12:31, Brian D. Harring wrote:
2 > Hola all, patch (incvs now) to fix up a traceback on first sync with
3 > an empty tree; bug #96410
4 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96410
5 >
6 > The fix isn't exactly what I'd call pretty (creating an intermediate
7 > portdbapi and config instance to do the updates), but it's a corner
8 > case; config's categories is a bit of a hack, and tearing it out in
9 > stable is more work then worth... so this.
10 >
11 > Either way, it's attached, poke at it kindly :)
12
13 You know the caching fairly well, so I'll ask rather than check. ;)
14
15 How does this affect the new version of portage check that follows? Will
16 that use the old cache, find that it's out of date and then regen it?
17
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19 Jason Stubbs

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