A seemingly bug found when emerging @preserved-rebuild

07-01-2008, 06:41 PM

Hi, guys,

The problem is like this:

If "multislot" USE flag is enabled, the installed gcc's SLOT will be
$CHOST-$majorver.$minorver.$microver.
But in metadata cache, the SLOT is $majorver.$minorver.

So when emerge @preserved-rebuild, emerge will complain "can't find ebuild
for =sys-devel/gcc-$CHOST-$majorver.$minorver.$microver"

Is this a bug? or did I miss something here?
Thanks for your time!

Zhang Le
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07-01-2008, 07:05 PM

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:41:14 +0800
Zhang Le <r0bertz@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Is this a bug? or did I miss something here?
> Thanks for your time!

The 'bug' here is that USE=multislot shouldn't exist. People using it
should be able to deal with resulting breakages on their own

Marius
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07-01-2008, 07:39 PM

On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Marius Mauch wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:41:14 +0800
> > Is this a bug? or did I miss something here?
> > Thanks for your time!
>
> The 'bug' here is that USE=multislot shouldn't exist.

not really. the SLOT syntax should be sufficiently flexible, but seeing as it
isnt, the result is hacks to work around a limited system.
-mike