From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LAUUr-0004wW-RQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:13:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBCDEE02EB; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:13:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C94E0333 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:13:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (xray.science.oregonstate.edu [128.193.220.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB3B76565E for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:13:16 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: add a compiler-version entry to pkg db Message-ID: <20081210191316.GA27879@comet> References: <493DBF60.205@gentoo.org> <20081209192124.GD2455@comet> <493EF2A6.3000205@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <493EF2A6.3000205@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Archives-Salt: da33be55-bfcb-4896-9a1d-02466e6b8ded X-Archives-Hash: dbdc7aa35c3d41a569e3256843d4b4a6 --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 23:35 Tue 09 Dec , Federico Ferri wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > As I mentioned on IRC, I think this isn't a very general use case=20 > > (given the existence of --resume, --keep-going, etc.) so code to=20 > > accomplish it >=20 > the point was not resuming my emerge because the laptop hung. was more=20 > like: tracking which compiler built which package or vice-versa >=20 > > would be better put into a custom portage bashrc than into portage > > proper. >=20 > yes, that makes sense. it could be an external tool, like=20 > revdep-rebuild is, which queries compiler by pkg, and eventually=20 > rebuilds packages (not) matching a certain compiler. >=20 > but to accomplish this, an information about the compiler (in the pkg=20 > record) should be there. something like=20 > /var/db/pkg///COMPILER The point is solving the right problem in the right way. It seems like=20 you're starting with a solution you've picked and are working backward=20 to find a good use case & problem for it. --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAklAFMwACgkQXVaO67S1rtuJ7gCeIaglU8NlxlRTE4xmd0o2/Af0 5+IAn2z4Xfx0mqn3eKWzUa2ZlwMVqQoG =aglv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE--