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On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 3:25:40 AM AEDT Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On 26/02/18 17:59, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> >>> Can't you whitelist packages like automake so that they don't trigger |
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> >>> rebuilds? Or at least provide a configurable whitelist (for make.conf) |
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> >>> where |
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> >>> we can add packages that don't trigger changed-deps rebuilds? |
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> >>> |
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> >>> There is no reason to rebuild anything just because of an automake |
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> >>> update. |
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> >>> This is just madness. |
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> >> |
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> >> Are you using --deep? I suspect that is why changed-deps is looking |
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> >> at build-time dependencies. I don't see why you'd need to rebuild |
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> >> something if a build-time dependency changes, unless you really care |
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> >> about building with the latest build system (in which case you |
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> >> probably would want to rebuild after an automake update). |
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> > Yes, I use --deep. I've run into cases many times in the past where |
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> > portage |
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> > was skipping updates unless I used --deep. |
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> You might want to avoid combining both --deep and --changed-deps. I |
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> haven't tested this but I suspect it is why you're getting all the |
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> automake-related rebuilds. Granted, at present that would require two |
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> separate updates if you wanted to use both. |
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> It seems like a whitelist isn't really the right solution here. I |
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> could see having a way to tell --changed-deps to ignore build-time |
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> dependencies as useful. |
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> Of course, the real solution is revbumps whenever necessary, but |
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> getting devs to do that seems to be impossible, as everybody wants to |
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> assume that dynamic deps work. |
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I just tried this to see what was happening, and adding "--with-bdeps n" cut the number |
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of recompilations right back, even when I still had "--deep" as one of the options. |
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Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ |
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