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

[Erik <esigra@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon skrev:
> 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  

"emerge -uNDf world" does nothing because the system is up to date. Even 
if all distfiles are missing, it does nothing (try to move the distfiles 
directory away while executing it). That command is supposed to 
"download everything that is missing to update the system". And since 
the system is up to date, nothing is needed to update it and it will 
therefore not download anything.

What I wanted was "download everything that is missing to reinstall 
everything that is currently installed". That is what "emerge -ef world" 
should do. Then I wanted to "remov
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