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From: Ian Clowes <clowes_ian@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:32:20
Message-Id: 431F4CA6.4BC4C32B@hotmail.com
1 Sascha Lucas wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi List,
4 >
5 > Machine B:
6 > - mount PGKDIR of machine A via nfs to PGKDIR on machine B
7 > - added USE-flag "samba"
8 > - emerge -uD --newuse --usepkg world
9 > * merges binary samba
10 > * does not merge anything else (no binary, no ebuild )
11 >
12 > It would be nice if I understand why emerge won't remerge binary packages
13 > with changed use-flags.
14
15 Hi Sascha
16
17 If you do --pretend --verbose, does it show the changed USE flags for
18 the packages? Not sure if 'world' does this, but you could try the
19 individual packages that you expect to be rebuilt. IIRC, it appears in
20 green (on a colour screen...) with a + and * next to the USE flag.
21
22 If the flags aren't shown as 'new' then its not strictly a problem with
23 the merge, but one with the way the flag changes are being enumerated.
24
25 If they are shown as changed then at least Portage is working out that
26 it would like to have new builds of the packages, and any failure is
27 presumably due to the way this cascades down to the binary merge
28 mechanism, such as the ability of a binary package to declare what USE
29 flags it was built with.
30
31 Not a solution, but hopefully it'll add insight.
32
33 IanC
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Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge Sascha Lucas <sascha.lucas@×××××××××××××××××.de>