[gentoo-dev] ebuild remerge

[gentoo-dev] ebuild remerge

[Pete Gavin]

Hi,

I was thinking, suppose you decided to remerge gcc, and the version
you already had installed had all the platform dependent stuff in
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-pc-linux-gnu, but when you recompile it, it
wants to put everything in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu. This
means that if you do ebuild remerge, you'll still have stuff hanging
around in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-pc-linux-gnu. I think the best way to
avoid this would be to make it so a remerge saves the old contents
list and then does a safe unmerge on it after merging the new one. I
can't think of a pretty way to do this, tho... Do you have any ideas?

Pete

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild remerge

[Achim Gottinger]

Pete Gavin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was thinking, suppose you decided to remerge gcc, and the version
> you already had installed had all the platform dependent stuff in
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-pc-linux-gnu, but when you recompile it, it
> wants to put everything in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu. This
> means that if you do ebuild remerge, you'll still have stuff hanging
> around in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-pc-linux-gnu. I think the best way to
> avoid this would be to make it so a remerge saves the old contents
> list and then does a safe unmerge on it after merging the new one. I
> can't think of a pretty way to do this, tho... Do you have any ideas?
>

Yes thats true if you run remerge the remaining old stuff should be
unmerged automatic after
the new version got merged.

achim

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Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild remerge

[drobbins]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 12:58:18PM -0700, Pete Gavin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was thinking, suppose you decided to remerge gcc, and the version
> you already had installed had all the platform dependent stuff in
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-pc-linux-gnu, but when you recompile it, it
> wants to put everything in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu. This
> means that if you do ebuild remerge, you'll still have stuff hanging
> around in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-pc-linux-gnu. I think the best way to
> avoid this would be to make it so a remerge saves the old contents
> list and then does a safe unmerge on it after merging the new one. I
> can't think of a pretty way to do this, tho... Do you have any ideas?

You hit the nail on the head, and this will be how it will work with
version 1.0 of Gentoo Linux. 

Best Regards,

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