Re: [gentoo-catalyst] patch, fix broken seed stage update

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org> wrote:
> --- a/doc/catalyst-spec.5.txt
> +++ b/doc/catalyst-spec.5.txt
> @@ -138,9 +138,19 @@ it should update the seed stage or not (valid values: `yes no`).
>  *update_seed_command*::
>  This is an optional command to pass to emerge for updating the seed
>  stage (example: `--update dev-libs/mpfr dev-libs/mpc dev-libs/gmp`)
> -If not specified, catalyst will update gcc deps.
> +If not specified, catalyst will update gcc's deps, and rebuild gcc if any of
> +it's deps are updated with a new version. Even if it itself is not updated.
> +This prevents gcc breakage when it's dependency lib sonames have changed.
>  This setting requires enabling update_seed.
>
> +*update_seed_system*::
> +This is an optional setting supported by stage1 to tell catalyst if
> +it should update the seed's system packages or not (valid values: `yes no`).
> +This is run after any update_seed_command, updating any remaining upgradable
> +system packages.
> +This setting requires enabling update_seed.

I don't see any need for an update_seed_system option. If someone
wants to run emerge @system then they can do:

update_seed_command: --options @system