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From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Disappearing useflag hell
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:31:04
Message-Id: CAOooyEtMpD4K_ydix6xekQn0OWUZ35fRyePraby9kMe4zE6ckg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Disappearing useflag hell by Dale
1 On Nov 27, 2011 3:44 PM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > walt wrote:
4 >>
5 >> Somewhere deep in the bowels of portage my 'introspection' useflag is
6 >> vanishing -- but on just one of my three machines.
7 >>
8 >> I set the introspection useflag on all three machines (two ~amd64 and
9 >> one ~x86) but when I run emerge --info, only two of the machines show
10 >> the introspection useflag in the output. Why?
11 >>
12 >> All three machines share the same /usr/portage by NFS, so they all
13 >> see the same use.mask and use.force files, etc.
14 >>
15 >> I'm running the default linux desktop gnome profile on all three.
16 >>
17 >> I tried deleting my /etc/portage/* on the problem machine, which made
18 >> no difference.
19 >>
20 >> I even tried using an empty make.conf and adding the single line
21 >> USE="introspection", but that made no difference either.
22 >>
23 >> When I flip other useflags in make.conf the changes show up in the
24 >> output of emerge --info, but not when I flip 'introspection'.
25 >>
26 >> Two days wasted and I'm out of ideas.
27 >>
28 >> Anyone understand the details of emerge --info or what I can do to
29 >> diagnose this problem?
30 >>
31 >>
32 >>
33 >
34 > I searched the -dev mailing list and only found references to the flag
35 being enabled on a lot of packages. It appears to be a Gnome thing but
36 don't quote me on it. Is it possible that it is enable by default whether
37 it is set or not? There was talk of making it on in the profile instead of
38 make.conf.
39
40 Yeah, could it be part of your profile? That's up in /etc so it could be
41 different among hosts.
42
43 >
44 > I would do a emerge -pv <package that uses the flag> and see if it shows
45 up there. If it is a small package, compile it then see if it is built in
46 or not. If it is, then they have it turned on somewhere. This is a bug
47 report that you can read on too.
48 >
49 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324989
50 >
51 > That help any?
52 >
53 > Dale
54 >
55 > :-) :-)
56 >
57 > --
58 > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
59 how you interpreted my words!
60 >
61 >