Re: In what phase are file "merged"?

Ulrich Mueller <[email protected]> Fri, 06 Aug 2021 06:22:53 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

>>>>> On Fri, 06 Aug 2021, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

> On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 13:33 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
>> On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 12:40 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> > I don't think that the ebuild can rely on any particular status of
>> > the new package in pkg_*rm (of the old package), or the status of
>> > the old package in pkg_*inst (of the new package).
>> 
>> I would even say that it can't rely on the particular status of the
>> old package in any case, if it's meant to be removed.  In particular,
>> its dependencies can be unmerged before the package itself.

> Stubled ove this mail again and noticed "its dependencies can be
> unmerged before the package itself" stmt. That does not make sense to
> me. Deps should be unmerged after any pkg that depends on them?

A popular workflow is "emerge -c -p" followed by "emerge -C" on entries
of the list shown. IIUC emerge -C doesn't do any dependency resolution,
therefore ebuilds cannot rely on any removal order.

Ulrich

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