Bug 324545

Summary:	ebuilding xorg-server should ebuild xorg-drivers LAST
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dennis Nezic <dennisn>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	xmw
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dennis Nezic 2010-06-18 03:43:55 UTC

This is perhaps a more general issue, but in particular, when ebuilding xorg-server, it ebuilds xorg-drivers before. So, with a newer xorg-server ABI, the newly-compiled drivers are useless, and have to be recompiled again :\.

Is there a way to properly sort this kind of dependency?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-23 10:35:37 UTC

xorg-drivers is already in PDEPEND. All the dependencies are correct, as far as we're concerned. The issue when updating is known and there's a portage bug for it (can't find it though, sorry).

In a nutshell, there's nothing for us to fix, that's why we strongly encourage users to manually rebuild drivers, using einfo. That's the best we can do, short of rewriting portage's dependency solver.

Thanks