[gentoo-dev] cleaning update files

[gentoo-dev] cleaning update files

[Marius Mauch]

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Hi all,

just checking the profiles/updates dir I noticed we have files there for
updates that tookplace nearly two years ago. While that isn't a problem
by itself it's a serious slowdown for the fixpackages script as it will
always apply all update files to all packages. I really doubt that there
are still systems that need these old updates, so if noone objects I'll
remove 3Q-2002, 4Q-2002 and 1Q-2003 later this week.

Marius

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Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning update files

[John Huttley]

Marius Mauch wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>just checking the profiles/updates dir I noticed we have files there for
>updates that tookplace nearly two years ago. While that isn't a problem
>by itself it's a serious slowdown for the fixpackages script as it will
>always apply all update files to all packages. I really doubt that there
>are still systems that need these old updates, so if noone objects I'll
>remove 3Q-2002, 4Q-2002 and 1Q-2003 later this week.
>
>Marius
>
>  
>
Hi,

While you are at  it, would you please consider writing a brief man page 
for fixpackages.
I've no idea why packages need to be fixed or what happens if you don't.

Does the make.conf FEATURE  option 'fixpackages' fix just the package 
being emerged or does it sweep all of them?
(it is a plural!)


I'm sure I'm not alone.

Regards
dad.

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