Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @ world -> @preserved-rebuild -> @preserved-rebuild -> what next?

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:00:33 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:

> >
> > Was it an endless loop? AIUI you emerged twice and the
> > @preserved-rebuild count decreased. In my experience, it can
> > occasionally take a few runs to clear the list, sometimes subsequent
> > runs add packages that were not there previously, but it all clears
> > in the end, I have NEVER had to resort to deleting the registry file
> > manually.

> If I don't run it forever then I don't think I can say it would never
> clear up. Can't prove a negative, etc.

When you get identical package lists on subsequent runs, I think it's
fair to say it won't fix itself. This has never happened to me.

> However, it did get to the point where it was complaining about two
> packages and the number of files to be rebuilt went (IIRC) 52, 50, 50,
> so I decide since it was rebuilding 50 packages the 2nd & 3rd times it
> wasn't going to improve. Might not be true though.

I think it is being over-cautious, which results in packages being
rebuilt multiple time unnecessarily, but I's rather give it the chance to
fix itself. That said, I've never had a list anything like 50 packages
long, but I do update frequently.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Why are love and relationships so confusing?

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