Re: [gentoo-user] portage weirdness

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck]

On Monday, 12 June 2006 5:35, Rodrigo Lazo wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> today I've updated to portage 2.1 and everything works fine. I'm setting a
> chroot and this are the steps I've take:
>
> 1-Downloaded stage2-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2
> 2-Create a partition with ext3
> 3-tar xvjpf stage2-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2
> 4-mkdir usr/portage
> 5-mount my portage partition mount /dev/hda9 usr/portage
> 6-mount proc and dev
> 7-chroot, env-update, source /etc/profile
> 8-emerge system
> 9-stop it after update portage
> 10-emerge --metadata
> 11-emerge -pvK system
>
> Now I'm getting some packages with the following output
>
> [binary     U ] sys-devel/flex-2.5.33-r1 [2.5.4a-r6] USE="nls% -static"
> [binary     U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1 [3.4.4-r1] USE="doc% fortran*
> gtk* nls -bootstrap* -boundschecking -build -gcj -hardened -ip28
> -ip32r10k% -multislot -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -vanilla"
>
> note those % like nls% and ip32r10k%. Portage "paint" them in
> yellow. In my main system this doesn't happen.
>
> AFAIK, the step that takes you from stage2 to stage3 is emerge system.
> Since I already have a system where to take the packages from, I try to
> save some donwloading using stage2.
>
> I copy my main system's /etc/make.conf to this chroot.
>
> Why am I getting that output? What does it means?
>
> Best regards
>
> --
> Rodrigo Lazo (rlazo)

It's a new feature of portage-2.1

(straight from the emerge man page)

[ebuild U ] sys-devel/distcc-2.16 [2.13-r1] USE=ipv6* -gtk -qt% 
(snip...)
The percent sign following qt indicates that the qt option has been added to 
the package since it was last installed.

-- 
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
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