Bug 144449

Summary:	emerge binhost features
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Arvid Picciani <aep>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Arvid Picciani 2006-08-19 12:54:36 UTC

1) there should be something to clean up the cache for it
(some command that does rm /var/cache/edb/metadata.idx.most_recent /var/cache/edb/remote_metadata.pickle)
i would sugest somthing like "emerge --binmeta" 

another solution would to make the cache working :p
caching dosnt work good, if you change a useflag on the binhost the cleint will not notice.

2) emerge -avtk should show how the binary packages useflags differ from the systems. 
i would sugest blue or pink color for it

e.g if you merge gtk from source you have -tiff, but the bin package has +tiff
so the user should get notified that merging the bin package a unwanted useflag would be inserted.

this is a feature request, nothing esential, but it would make the life of binhost user easier.

thanks in advance

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-19 12:58:35 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144448 ***