33927 – buildpkgonly is not enough ;-)

Bug 33927 - buildpkgonly is not enough ;-)

Summary: buildpkgonly is not enough ;-)

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2003-11-20 05:43 UTC by Qui Gon
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:36 UTC (History)
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Description Qui Gon 2003-11-20 05:43:44 UTC

I think the -B or --buildpkgonly option is not enough, as there might be case,
where you'd like to build a package, which conflicts with another one.

Example:
I have mozilla-firebird-bin installed, and I'm going to build the source as a
package. Emerge suggests to uninstall the bin first, and then emerge the
source-ebuild.
Problem: You won't have a browser during that time.
Solution: Some kind of ignore&buildpkgonly option would be nice.

Another solution would be to ignore the conflicts.

I haven't seen this as a feature yet... Maybe in future?

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-20 14:49:14 UTC

emerge --nodeps --buildpkgonly should work