Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -ef world" and "eclean --destructive distfiles" do not agree

[Dale <dalek1967@bellsouth.net>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 23 February 2008, Erik wrote:
>   
>> I am running
>> emerge -ef world
>> eclean --destructive distfiles'
>> emerge -ef world
>> eclean --destructive distfiles
>> ...
>>
>> Each time eclean removes the following files:
>>  * Building file list for distfiles cleaning...
>>  * Cleaning distfiles...
>>  [ 258.9 K ] XML-LibXML-1.65.tar.gz
>>  [ 478.6 K ] klibc-1.5.8.tar.bz2
>>  [ 290.2 K ] libassuan-1.0.4.tar.bz2
>>  [  67.7 K ] mftrace-1.2.9.tar.gz
>>  [   9.2 M ] patch-2.6.24-rc7.bz2
>>  [ 243.4 K ] setuptools-0.6c7.tar.gz
>>  * Total space that has been freed in distfiles directory: 10.5 M
>>
>> Then emerge downloads them again. I had expected that those 2
>> programs should agree on which files belong in the set of distfiles.
>>     
>
> What happens if you use 'emerge -uNDf world" instead of 'emerge -ef 
> world'
>
> -e is a special case and does not equate to the same thing as -uND
>
>   

I think I see it the same way he does.  If you do a rm -rf 
/usr/portage/distfiles/* and then do a emerge -ef world, then do the 
eclean again, it should not remove anything since everything there is 
needed to recompile everything in world and their dependencies.  It 
should also not have to redownload anything either.

Isn't patch part of system?  setuptools too?

Dale

:-)  :-) 
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