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 "remove everything that is not needed to
reinstall everything that is currently installed". That is what "eclean
--destructive distfiles" should do. Doing both should result in a set of
distfiles that is "what is needed and only what is needed to reinstall
everything that is currently installed (assuming that the system is up
to date)". But since the 2 commands do not agree, something is broken
somewhere.
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