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| author |   Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2011-10-11 16:45:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2011-10-11 16:45:46 -0700 |
| commit | 7ab4d5722a828167dd1bf946b26cfa80808f59fc (patch) | |
| tree | f6fc7f0c94033cc81dcce086945c2272230a8568 /man | |
| parent | Ensure correct IUSE in vdb for bug #386829. (diff) | |
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Remove FEATURES=fixpackages support.v2.2.0_alpha67
This reduces the probability of users encountering issues related to
package moves when they disable --dynamic-deps, and --package-moves=n
can be set in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS if package moves need to be
temporarily avoided for some reason.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/emerge.1 | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/make.conf.5 | 5 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1 index 10be7895c..6088cdc0d 100644 --- a/man/emerge.1 +++ b/man/emerge.1 @@ -415,13 +415,11 @@ installed packages to vary dynamically when source ebuild dependencies are modified. This option is enabled by default. \fBWARNING:\fR -If \-\-dynamic\-deps is disabled, then it is necessary to ensure that -an alternative method is used to handle package moves in dependencies -of installed packages. Normally, this is handled by -FEATURES="fixpackages", which is enabled by default and may be -disabled via \fBmake.conf\fR(5). Alternatively, in order to manually -apply package moves, run `emaint \-\-fix moveinst` after each -emerge \-\-sync operation (see \fBemaint\fR(1)). +If you want to disable \-\-dynamic\-deps, then it may be necessary to +first run \fBfixpackages\fR in order to get the best results. The +\fBfixpackages\fR command performs two different operations that can +also be performed separately by the `emaint \-\-fix moveinst` and +`emaint \-\-fix movebin` commands (see \fBemaint\fR(1)). .TP .BR "\-\-emptytree " (\fB\-e\fR) Reinstalls target atoms and their entire deep diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5 index 6c64686c7..a2221cf45 100644 --- a/man/make.conf.5 +++ b/man/make.conf.5 @@ -295,11 +295,6 @@ probably also want to enable \fBPORT_LOGDIR\fR in order to save the build log. Both the \fBebuild\fR(1) command and the \fInoclean\fR feature cause the \fIfail\-clean\fR feature to be automatically disabled. .TP -.B fixpackages -Runs the script that will fix the dependencies in all binary packages. This is -run whenever packages are moved around in the portage tree. Please note that this -can take a lot of time. -.TP .B getbinpkg Force emerges to always try to fetch files from the \fIPORTAGE_BINHOST\fR. See \fBmake.conf\fR(5) for more information. |