Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

[Dan Egli]

The R status means REBUILD. Usually, if it's an @world it's pulling that in because something about that package changed and so it needs to rebuild it. The --noreplace option would block that if portage didn't think it was needed. Based on your options, I'd say that it's probably a USE flag was changed. I don't use binpkgs myself, preferring to compile except in certain circumstances (can we say RUST!?) that I need to use a -bin variant. You can try without it, but I recommend leaving your change-use and newuse flags in place and letting the system rebuild xmodmap.

On 5/14/2021 3:54 AM, n952162 wrote:

Why does portage want to build this:

[ebuild   R    ] x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10::gentoo 0 KiB

given this, already installed:

/var/db/pkg/x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10/xmodmap-1.0.10.ebuild

and these on my binary server (which is apparently not working properly
for reasons I'm trying to track down):

     binpkgs/x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10.tbz2
     distfiles/xmodmap-1.0.10.tar.bz2

When I remove these options, it doesn't want to anymore:

    #  --changed-use \
    #  --changed-deps \
    #  --newuse \
    #  --backtrack=100 \
    #  --deep \

Which option was it, I wonder, which triggered the build, and would it
bring me anything?

The options still used are:

emerge \
  --getbinpkg y \
  -v \
  --tree \
  --update \
  --noreplace \
  --verbose-conflicts \
  --keep-going \
  --with-bdeps=y \
  @world

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