On Thursday 13 September 2007 05:32:07 Mark Knecht wrote:
> That's very interesting. What about slotting issues? What if it's the
> old version in a slot that needs to be rebuilt? (FYI - I don't really
> understand slotting that much since I don't program. I've guessed it's
> because some code needs old libraries, etc., and somehow slotting
> takes care of that.)

Slotting just allows two or more versions of a package to be installed at the 
same time. It's up to the maintainer to ensure that they don't interfere with 
each other so there's no magic in it..

> Does -X install the latest version in the specific slot?

It should. Unfortunately revdep-rebuild has a few bugs at the moment. So in 
the case of apr-util the latest stable version of revdep-rebuild will remerge 
the wrong version of apr-util (see bug #189720 for details). And of course 
latest ~arch version has a few other bugs at the moment (most of which are 
fixed in svn but not yet released).. :p

> Anyway, I've wondered at times about just removing all the specific
> revision numbers but I'm wary of going beyond my comfort zone and then
> ending up in a state that's more difficult to fix.

-X will certainly do a better job than just removing all specific revision 
numbers manually.

> Maybe the revdep-rebuild guys should (could?) include -X if it's the
> right thing to do?

The latest ~arch version does have -X as default. Once the bugs in that gets 
fixed it'll do a much better job than the current stable version.

-- 
Bo Andresen