From: Jacques Montier <jmontier@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installation and reinstallation of the same binary packages
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:48:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHVEG0BcpKPVzNvS2JsAR=U6rtUa+bHvhpGTHHZqzBorVevgqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Le sam. 15 mars 2025 à 16:45, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> a
écrit :
> 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.
>
>
> I admit that I was surprised by the behavior of the --getbinpkgonly option
> in an already installed system that had a mix of sources and binaries.
By keeping only the --getbinpkg option, everything returned to normal. I
> probably didn't understand everything... 🤔
>
> Regards,
--
Jacques
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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
2025-03-16 9:48 ` Jacques Montier [this message]
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