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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -ef world" and "eclean --destructive distfiles" do not agree
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:41:25
Message-Id: 200802230237.42636.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] "emerge -ef world" and "eclean --destructive distfiles" do not agree by Erik
1 On Saturday 23 February 2008, Erik wrote:
2 > I am running
3 > emerge -ef world
4 > eclean --destructive distfiles'
5 > emerge -ef world
6 > eclean --destructive distfiles
7 > ...
8 >
9 > Each time eclean removes the following files:
10 > * Building file list for distfiles cleaning...
11 > * Cleaning distfiles...
12 > [ 258.9 K ] XML-LibXML-1.65.tar.gz
13 > [ 478.6 K ] klibc-1.5.8.tar.bz2
14 > [ 290.2 K ] libassuan-1.0.4.tar.bz2
15 > [ 67.7 K ] mftrace-1.2.9.tar.gz
16 > [ 9.2 M ] patch-2.6.24-rc7.bz2
17 > [ 243.4 K ] setuptools-0.6c7.tar.gz
18 > * Total space that has been freed in distfiles directory: 10.5 M
19 >
20 > Then emerge downloads them again. I had expected that those 2
21 > programs should agree on which files belong in the set of distfiles.
22
23 What happens if you use 'emerge -uNDf world" instead of 'emerge -ef
24 world'
25
26 -e is a special case and does not equate to the same thing as -uND
27
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29 Alan McKinnon
30 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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