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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installation and reinstallation of the same binary packages
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:44:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6143912.lOV4Wx5bFT@cube> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHVEG0CXVMVFB=YjA+xEdpQjVeKjUHw=rtXi1Vt4w-niYpps0w@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday, 15 March 2025 13:53:20 Greenwich Mean Time Jacques Montier wrote:

> It's a real mess.
> Some day, it's ok, another day 160 sourced packages to compile and so on...
> So i give up and go back to my classical mixed sources/binary Gentoo
> packages.
> May be it could work with Gentoo installation from scratch... Don't know.

[Apologies if this amounts to hijacking the thread...]

The other day portage wanted to upgrade quite a number of packages: some from 
source and some from Gentoo binpkgs. Rather than laboriously picking out just 
the binpkgs by hand, I told portage to upgrade -K. It wanted to update 246 
packages!

It seems that, if a more recent package exists, it will be remerged willy-
nilly, whether it's a real upgrade or not.

I hope portage isn't meant to work this way...

-- 
Regards,
Peter.





  reply	other threads:[~2025-03-15 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-12 10:49 [gentoo-user] Installation and reinstallation of the same binary packages Jacques Montier
2025-03-13  9:31 ` Dale
2025-03-13  9:31 ` netfab
2025-03-13 17:24   ` Jacques Montier
2025-03-13 18:34     ` Dale
2025-03-15 13:53       ` Jacques Montier
2025-03-15 15:44         ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2025-03-16  9:48           ` Jacques Montier

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