Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid question regarding 'fixpackages'

[Joachim Breuer <jmbreuer@gmx.net>]

Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> writes:

> On 10/20/03  Joachim Breuer wrote:
>
>> Now, my question is: Shouldn't fixpackages 'stabilize', i.e. not
>> perform global updates it has already performed? The way it is now I'd
>> hate to think what an upgrade will be like a year or two from now...
>> If this 'stabilizing' cannot be done I'd like to know for what reason,
>> perhaps I'd want to take a look whether there really isn't an useful
>> optimization.
>
> Well, there are different opinions on that. I'd like to make the
> fixpackages script behave the same way as FEATURES="fixpackages", but
> there is a reason not to do this: the do_upgrade function which actually
> does all the work for fixpackages (and more) maintains a mtime table
> when it runs, but it is run by emerge and fixpackages. The problem now
> is that when do_upgrade runs from emerge without FEATURES="fixpackages"
> it updates the mtime table, that means the information would be wrong
> for fixpackages. I guess in the end we will have to add another mtime
> table for fixpackages to fix this issue.

Ah! Allright, thanks for clarifying that. So, can I expect better
over-all performance if I put 'fixpackages' into my FEATURES, and no
longer need to use the fixpackages script then?


So long,
   Joe

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