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Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: |
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>> I've just rebuilt my system without "motif" use flag (with emerge |
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>> --newuse, etc). |
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>> Everything works fine, except that equery shows stale data. |
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>> For example: |
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>> 1. "equery depends emacs" shows openmotif as dependency, but emacs is |
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>> rebuilt without motif USE ("emerge -pv emacs" clearly shows this). |
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The depends query shows all depends regardless of whether they are enabled or not (by USE flags). |
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>> 2. "equery hasuse motif" also shows emacs |
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>> Is there any caching done by equery? How can I invalidate it? |
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The hasuse query shows all USE flags regardless of whether they are enabled or not. |
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There is no cache, it queries the database directly. |
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> I did not use esync, I did not even know about it, and I do not recall |
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> seeing it in install docs... |
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> It is quite strange why equery (which is in gentoolkit package) relies |
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> on eupdatedb (which is in esearch package), and gentoolkit does not |
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> depend on esearch. |
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> If it were not for your answer, I wouldn't have known about esync and |
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> eupdatedb. |
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> I think maybe the install docs should be updated, or at least put |
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> esearch as a dependency of gentoolkit. |
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Gentoolkit and equery do not depend on esearch. |
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> Even with eupdtaedb, same result. |
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> I think this might be a bug in equery. Should I put it in bugzilla? |
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> Here is the proof for what I think is a bug: see the output of "equery |
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> hasuse motif" and "equery uses emacs". The results are contradictory. |
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I explained this above. If you file a bug then AFAIKT it's a feature request. |
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Zac |
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