One of the common complaints with revdep-rebuild is that it wants to constantly rebuild binary packages (most notably openoffice-bin). To assist in resolving this issue, I have released gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre9 which adds the capability for an ebuild maintainer to adjust how revdep-rebuild behaves towards binary packages.
The latest revdep-rebuild allows the user to control the following variables: LD_LIBRARY_MASK - Mask of specially evaluated libraries SEARCH_DIRS - List of directories to search for executables and libraries SEARCH_DIRS_MASK - List of directories to not search With the capability that I just added, a package maintainer can now adjust the same variables. To use this capability do the following: 1. Install a file into /etc/revdep-rebuild (I'm using the same convention as /etc/env.d and prefixing the files with a number) 2. Inside of the file, place the appropriate changes to the variables. For example: I have the following file /etc/revdep-rebuild/10openoffice-bin on my system # openoffice-bin revdep-rebuild configuration file SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/usr/lib/openoffice" 3. revdep-rebuild will accumulate the variables in the following order: environment, /etc/make.conf, /etc/revdep-rebuild/* This means that a user can override your changes if desired, but your changes will be honored by default. Finally, one other change that I am considering is to add a PACKAGE_MASK variable that will only be read from the files in /etc/revdep-rebuild and cannot be overridden by the user (except by editing the file). The purpose will be to tell revdep-rebuild to never attempt to rebuild that package. Before I implement that I would like to get some feedback on if that is a desired feature. Regards, Paul
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