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charlieg
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 Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:45 am Post subject: If an emerge requires a reinstall of those that depend on it |
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| GWN wrote: | Early addition of tcl/tk
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Earlier this week, tcl-8.4.2 was added to the testing tree ahead of schedule and before the supporting scripts to help users migrate from previous versions of tcl were in place. tcl-8.4.2 requires all applications using tcl to be recompiled before they will function with the new version. The development team is working on a migration strategy to help users migrate from previous versions. In the meantime, anyone using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~<arch>" should be aware of the recompilation requirements. |
Here's an idea.
Why not have a 'dependencies' file in portage, listing which installed applications depend on other package versions.
| Code: | # dependencies file
package=tcl
list
the
dependencies
one
yes
i
couldn't
think
of
a
tcl/tk
package
package=another
some
more
dependencies |
Then you could do:
| Code: | # emerge tcl
WARNING -- Programs compiled against an older version of this package will not work against the new version.
To force the emerge:
emerge --force tcl
To recompile dependencies:
emerge --update-dependencies emerge tcl
To keep the old version:
emerge --do-not-clean tcl |
Just a ramble... 
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Jimbow
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:32 am Post subject: Re: If an emerge requires a reinstall of those that depend o |
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| charlieg wrote: | Here's an idea.
Why not have a 'dependencies' file in portage, listing which installed applications depend on other package versions.
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qpkg -q $PACKAGE already gives you a list of what packages depend upon $PACKAGE. The qpkg program is part of the gentoolkit package.
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noff
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 1:35 am Post subject: |
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If a packages has forward dependencies such as tcl/tk as was found portage should throw a flag and cause portage to search all packages and cause those to recompile. I say it should have an F for forward dependencies.
The dependencies are all there and his should be part of 2.1. This could later be expanded to move those files into a queue. That would be useful for some browsers and kernel modules. Automagically remember to recompile alsa-driver and xfree-drm.
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