Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: add a compiler-version entry to pkg db

[Federico Ferri <mescalinum@gentoo.org>]

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Petteri Räty wrote:
> Federico Ferri wrote:
>> Hello,
>> today I hit this annoyance, because my laptop hung in the middle of an
>> 'emerge -e @world' (checking that my world set compiles with
>> gcc-4.3... stopped at ~ 300 of 700  :S )
>>
>
> Consider using emerge --keep-going next time.
>
>> I was looking for an entry in /var/db/pkg/<cat/pkg>/ that could have
>> told me the compiler used to build the package, but couldn't find any.
>> indeed it would be a fairly useful feature to have, both for testing
>> purposes, and for user's everyday maintenance.
>>
>
> But the idea isn't that bad imfo. Maybe save the output of emerge --info
> in general and it could be easily made available for bug filing. If it
> was a while since you emerged the package your emerge --info could now
> be different from the merge time and now for example reflect your use
flags.
nice point!
I didn't see the whole potential of my proposal :-D

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Federico Ferri
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