Bug 578338

Summary:	Add a tool that would remove local packages that are also present on binhost
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Fedja Beader <fedja>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	fedja
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	377365
Attachments:	Example solution in Bash for FEATURES=binpkg-multi-instance

Description Fedja Beader 2016-03-27 00:27:05 UTC

As discussed in freenode/#gentoo-portage

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<@dol-sen> hmm, could be an eclean-pkg enhancement
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Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Fedja Beader 2016-03-27 00:27:57 UTC

Created attachment 429080 [details]
Example solution in Bash

Comment 2 Fedja Beader 2016-07-21 14:13:02 UTC

Created attachment 441322 [details]
for FEATURES=binpkg-multi-instance

At the end there is some (disabled) broken code for removing packages that have the same USE/IUSE flags, but different checksums (e.g. the package was first built downstream and then later on the binpkg builder).

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2016-07-21 15:52:02 UTC

This would be much easier to do, and maintain, using python/portage APIs.

Note that eclean is using portage APIs more now, since the patches from bug 586658.