Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: confcache, final chance to ixnay it
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:13:37
Message-Id: 20060215091258.GE11279@nightcrawler.had1.or.comcast.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: confcache, final chance to ixnay it by R Hill
1 On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 04:56:06PM -0600, R Hill wrote:
2 > agree here. i would go as far as to maybe print a message to that effect
3 > if the build fails while FEATURES="confcache".
4 EBUILD_DEATH_HOOKS comes to mind :)
5
6 >
7 > >Meanwhile, if you're getting failures up the ying yang and it's not
8 > >tracked down, I'd state tabling the feature (or tagging massively
9 > >hideous warnings regarding it) is required. Iirc, solar ran a
10 > >full build with confcache enabled (believe it was 0.3.*), so input
11 > >from him would be useful also for comparison.
12 >
13 > damn, i don't want to hold this up, especially if no one else is having
14 > troubles. i have a couple days off right now so i'll do some poking around
15 > and see what i can come up with. i'll open a bug and assign to you if i
16 > figure anything out.
17
18 CC flameeyes on it please.
19
20 If ruby isn't restrict'd already, please poke the maintainers to do so
21 also :)
22 ~harring