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From: Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 16:08:20
Message-Id: ff2099d9-0728-79c5-1818-1f76642dfc90@users.sourceforge.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean? by n952162
1 On 5/14/21 3:54 AM, n952162 wrote:
2 > Why does portage want to build this:
3 >
4 > [ebuild   R    ] x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10::gentoo 0 KiB
5 >
6 > given this, already installed:
7 >
8 > /var/db/pkg/x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10/xmodmap-1.0.10.ebuild
9 >
10 > and these on my binary server (which is apparently not working properly
11 > for reasons I'm trying to track down):
12 >
13 >      binpkgs/x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10.tbz2
14 >      distfiles/xmodmap-1.0.10.tar.bz2
15 >
16 > When I remove these options, it doesn't want to anymore:
17 >
18 >     #  --changed-use \
19 >     #  --changed-deps \
20 >     #  --newuse \
21 >     #  --backtrack=100 \
22 >     #  --deep \
23 >
24 > Which option was it, I wonder, which triggered the build, and would it
25 > bring me anything?
26 My guess is that one of the USE flags changed.  Compare which USE flags
27 is it currently installed with and which it wants for the reinstall.  It
28 might even be that a USE flag changed in the ebuild, even if it won't
29 actually change what gets installed. (--changed-use vs --new-use)
30 >
31 > The options still used are:
32 >
33 > emerge \
34 >   --getbinpkg y \
35 >   -v \
36 >   --tree \
37 >   --update \
38 >   --noreplace \
39 >   --verbose-conflicts \
40 >   --keep-going \
41 >   --with-bdeps=y \
42 >   @world
43 >
44 >

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