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On 5/14/21 8:11 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 14 May 2021 11:54:30 +0200, n952162 wrote: |
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>> Why does portage want to build this: |
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>> [ebuild R ] x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10::gentoo 0 KiB |
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>> given this, already installed: |
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>> /var/db/pkg/x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10/xmodmap-1.0.10.ebuild |
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>> and these on my binary server (which is apparently not working properly |
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>> for reasons I'm trying to track down): |
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>> binpkgs/x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10.tbz2 |
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>> distfiles/xmodmap-1.0.10.tar.bz2 |
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>> When I remove these options, it doesn't want to anymore: |
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>> # --changed-use \ |
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>> # --changed-deps \ |
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>> # --newuse \ |
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>> # --backtrack=100 \ |
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>> # --deep \ |
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>> Which option was it, I wonder, which triggered the build, and would it |
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>> bring me anything? |
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> --changed-use would show the changed USE flag in the output, so it is |
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> probably --changed-deps. The emerge man page explains just what the flag |
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> does. |
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I haven't been able to find that display yet. I have found this: |
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* Messages for package virtual/dev-manager-0-r2: |
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* emerge --keep-going: virtual/dev-manager-0-r2 dropped because it |
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requires |
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* sys-apps/busybox[mdev] |
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Is this what you're referring to? In one build, I have tons of these, |
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but in a way that's confusing me now, they refer to packages that seem |
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to have been inexplicably dropped. |
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> Incidentally, there is no point in using --newuse and --changed-use, the |
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> former is a superset of the latter. I'd use only --changed-use to avoid |
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> unnecessary rebuilds. |
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That's useful, thank you. |
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