Re: Build dependencies and upgrades.

On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:36:15 -0700
Alec Warner <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera
> (klondike) <[email protected]> wrote:
> > El 11/10/11 20:55, Markos Chandras escribió:
> >> On 10/11/11 19:50, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >>
> >> > Today I have found that build dependencies are left in the system
> >> > but won't be upgraded when running emerge -vauD1 world. This can
> >> > be inconvenient since security issues fixed in those left over
> >> > packages won't be applied properly. So, is there any reason for
> >> > this behaviour? Shouldn't build dependencies either be cleaned
> >> > with --depclean after building or be upgraded to avoid possible
> >> > issues?
> >>
> >> > Sorry if this gets in here twice, I used an incorrect account.
> >>
> >>
> >> Maybe you want the --with-bdeps parameter along with the -D one?.
> >> man emerge -> section Options -> parameter -D
> > That makes sense but then the problem is on the poor documentation
> > we have in the Internet.
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1
> > Here no mention to that option is made
> > Nor is in:
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml
> >
> > And in fact no mention to the option is made in the doc space at
> > all. I may also be wrong here but I don't recall finding it when I
> > started with portage and no notice was issued since then so either
> > I misunderstood it, kinda likely by then, or it was added later.
> > And the fact it wasn't commented at all in the documentation didn't
> > help.
> >
> > The question now is anybody thinks this shouldn't appear in the
> > handbook? If nobody has a problem I'll prepare a patch.
> >
> > PS: howarang thanks for the point I found it really odd this was
> > missing.
> >
> >
> 
> FYI: there are a truckload of options that are available in portage
> but are not documented in the handbook. I'm not really sure
> replicating the portage manpages in the handbook is necessarily a good
> way to move forward. Ideally we would direct users to just read the
> manpages.

Or go with a saner defaults...

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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