Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?

On Fri, Nov 01 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> On 01/11/2013 17:43, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 01 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/11/2013 15:41, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Oct 31 2013, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Oct 27 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> I think we can agree that something must have changed on your system in
> the last few days, we just have to find it.
>
> Did you run any portage commands at all that cause changes since
> Wednesday? "emerge @preserved-rebuild" and depclean are good candidates,
> I often forget about those myself.

/var/log/portage/elog shows that the last entry was for tar at 30 nov
just after midnight.  That was the tail end of an update world that
included chromium, which ended just before tar.  So about 9:30pm on
tuesday I started an update world that ended about 3 hours later.
I see no activity after that.  The emerges after that (all --ask) were
aborted when I saw all the reinstalls and then I sent the email to the
group.

>
> How about any file at all in /etc/portage that changes since
> wednesday?

None

newlap gottlieb # ls -l /tmp/ts; find /etc/portage -newer /tmp/ts -ls
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct  1 00:00 /tmp/ts
1190838    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Oct  7 10:12 /etc/portage/package.mask
1188156    4 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         2550 Oct  7 10:13 /etc/portage/package.mask/gnome-3.8
1190759    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Oct  8 16:15 /etc/portage/postsync.d
1190586    4 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root           68 Oct  8 16:14 /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize
1190761    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Oct  8 16:15 /etc/portage/bin
1190467    4 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          190 Oct  8 16:14 /etc/portage/bin/post_sync


> Or /var/lib/portage/world*?
newlap gottlieb # ls -l /var/lib/portage/world*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root portage 1048 Oct 15 19:27 /var/lib/portage/world
-rw-r--r-- 1 root portage 1098 Sep  9 17:21 /var/lib/portage/world~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root portage    0 Oct 15 19:27 /var/lib/portage/world_sets

I do appreciate your efforts and this hunting was instructive for me, but
I can't see you spending any more time on it.  I must have done
something wrong (beyond not including the output of the update world
with 38 reinstalls).

The status now is that update world only wants to update poppler,
util-linux, icu, and python-exec.  I have not re- synced.  I imagine it
is quite safe to do this update (perhaps the python-exec will then
trigger more later).

I will first update a less important machine that also includes
python-exec and if nothing terrible occurs will update the main machine.

I do feel bad for time others have spent on what was clearly some
unknown user error on my part.

thanks again,
allan