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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Feature requests, and few bugreports
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:42:20
Message-Id: 200506202241.07920.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Feature requests, and few bugreports by Atis
1 On Monday 20 June 2005 22:23, Atis wrote:
2 > * verify of merged files
3
4 /usr/lib/portage/bin/chkcontents
5
6 -- not so user friendly
7
8 # /usr/lib/portage/bin/chkcontents /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.22-r1/CONTENTS
9 /usr/lib/portage/bin/dispatch-conf has md5sum of
10 91c99c64ceda9e8ebfb9acc9b6bd22b8 instead of 1c895e1a8946fa5fe92b600704dfc39f
11 /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild has md5sum of c2e6dd138828849f6b4f7e8f2d64a856
12 instead of 34539a3bf6d5c98bf2aac6e6bef0022a
13 /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh has md5sum of e6ab63f5463803d186f6cfc0e63aad7f
14 instead of c792cecefa4877cd87b647ddbed2764f
15 /usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge has md5sum of b3307c19cd0abfd70e05c27dd8a26973
16 instead of cd25259fa647ad7044cafdc3f3cfb6af
17 ...
18
19 > * --resume functionality preserving
20
21 There is a bug open about this. A quick workaround is to backup
22 /var/cache/edb/mtimedb to retain the --resume information.
23
24 > * Total package count with --resume
25
26 This is just a point-of-view thing.
27
28 > * while emerge -e system [hardened/x86/2.6 profile] i found out that
29 > Perl5 is required to build dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7e-r1
30
31 Circular dependencies currently behave very badly.
32
33 > * During bootstrap could be set +userlocales for glibc.
34
35 Unrelated to portage. Are you asking for docs to be updated?
36
37 > * Condensed list of possible USE flags during emerge -p
38
39 Not sure about this. Usually one would want to know what a USE flag applies to
40 when deciding whether it should be enabled or not anyway. It would seem to me
41 that it'd just add to the already too cluttered output.
42
43 > * Introducing of flags --buildonly and --merge
44
45 --buildpkgonly and --usepkg. --buildpkgonly requires that dependencies be
46 installed before building.
47
48 Regards,
49 Jason Stubbs