Bug 333765

Summary:	eutils.eclass preserve_old_lib should save list of preserved libs somewhere
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Cyp <cyp561>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Cyp 2010-08-21 08:29:40 UTC

preserve_old_lib or preserve_old_lib_notify in eutils.eclass should probably save a list of preserved libraries somewhere, so that people can see which old libraries have been preserved, even if not immediately running revdep-rebuild and deleting the library.

If saving a list of libraries somewhere, then perhaps revdep-rebuild could have an option to check the list of preserved libraries, or could consider links to preserved libraries to be broken when checking dependencies. An option to delete the preserved libraries after rebuilding dependencies might also be useful.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-08-21 10:19:03 UTC

sure, it's been discussed to death, like in bug 326275. someone needs to come up with a patch.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 326275 ***