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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Experiment: confcache patch for portage-2.0.50-r10
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:42:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409101842.48372.stuart@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409101032.55324.pauldv@gentoo.org>

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On Friday 10 September 2004 09:32, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> One question I have is how cache invalidation is handled? Will the cache
> not think until the end of time that e.g. kde is installed
> in /usr/kde/3.2 while we allready went on to 4.0?
>
> Paul

My patch uses the sandbox to see which files GNU configure uses.  I maintain a 
list of those files, and their checksums.  At the start of econf, I check the 
list of checksums.  If any of them have changed, I assume the entire cache is 
invalid.

Best regards,
Stu
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-10 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-09 21:12 [gentoo-dev] Experiment: confcache patch for portage-2.0.50-r10 Stuart Herbert
2004-09-10  8:06 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-09-10 17:40   ` Stuart Herbert
2004-09-10  8:32 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-09-10 17:42   ` Stuart Herbert [this message]
2004-09-10 21:14     ` Paul de Vrieze

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