Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 18:33 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> can some explain this? Machine A+B have identical make.conf (expect in 3 
> USE-falgs), /etc/portage/*, /usr/portage, profile.
> 
> Machine A:
>   - FEATURES="buildpkg"
>   - added USE-flag "samba"
>   - emerge -uD --newuse world
>     * builds new samba package
>     * rebuilds some packages (kdebase, cups, mplayer etc.)
> 
> Machine B:
>   - mount PGKDIR of machine A via nfs to PGKDIR on machine B
>   - added USE-flag "samba"
>   - emerge -uD --newuse --usepkg world
>     * merges binary samba
>     * does not merge anything else (no binary, no ebuild )
> 
> It would be nice if I understand why emerge won't remerge binary packages 
> with changed use-flags.

It doesn't know that kdebase, cups etc need rebuilding unless you use
the --newuse option


> 
> THX,
> 
> Sascha.
> 
-- 
Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>

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