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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:10:44AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> > Hum, I seem to have made an erroneous assumption. |
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> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:38:05AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: |
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> >> The problem with this last one is not --deep. It is --update. |
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> > Nevermind, I looked at the changelogs for openoffice and |
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> > dev-perl/Archive-Zip, and frankly, I am pretty sure what I said was |
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> > completely wrong in this situation. And also, frankly, I am becoming |
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> > as confused as you are about your problem. |
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> I "downgraded" to File-Spec-3.29 (actually an upgrade) which in turn |
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> emerged/updated the rest of that bunch of perl-related packages. Now |
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> I'm re-emerging openoffice-3.0.0 since it appears to be using a newer |
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> set of the go-oo.org patches (despite the lack of version number |
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> change). Plus it is always fun to see how long it takes to build one |
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> of the biggest packages there is. I have emerged it twice in the past, |
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> the first was 1hr33m the second was 1hr55m, so I hope this one won't |
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> exceed 2h. |
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I don't find that explanation satisfactory. (The one about upgrade vs |
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downgrades.) -u expands to --update means to install the *best |
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available version*, not the *highest version number available*. If an |
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ebuild goes from x86 to being hardmasked, --update should downgrade. |
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If an ebuild of insanely high version number gets removed, --update |
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should downgrade. |
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I can explain why emerge openoffice and emerge --deep openoffice are |
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different. emerge --deep openoffice basically does something similar |
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to emerge --oneshot <everything openoffice has in its dependency>. |
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So every package in the dependency tree will be considered, and if not |
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at the *best* version it will be updated. Compare to emerge openoffice |
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where only if a change of ebuild in openoffice changes the dependency |
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will trigger installation of new or updated versions of dependencies. |
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(Basically, you already have a version of whatever perl class it |
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wants, and the ebuild specifies >= some really low version, so the |
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dependency is satisfied and won't be considered in the emerge.) |
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What I can't explain is why emerge --update --deep world misses the |
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update! dev-perl/Archive-Zip is (correct me if I am wrong: I didn't |
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see it mentioned in the changelogs so I assume it was not changed) in |
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the dependency tree of both the Nov 3 and the January versions of |
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openoffice. So --deep should traverse down there and find that one of |
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its dependencies requires an update. At least that's what I expect |
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based on "man emerge". |
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Best, |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton |
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