> > Maybe this could be solved by having two kinds of revisions: > > - One would rebuild all as usually (for example, -r1...) > > - The other one would only regenerate VDB and wouldn't change the > > installed files (for example, -r1.1) > > > > But I am not sure if it could be viable from a "technical" point of > > view :( > > I'm afraid it couldn't. The major problem is not knowing *when* to > migrate metadata, portage usually gets that right. The problem is in > getting the correct output which is often near to impossible.
I think we'd appreciate some more information here: * What exactly is the metadata that we're talking about? * How much of it can be generated by sourcing the ebuild, without running phases? * When does that exactly break? Example? Thanks!!! -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, council
