Bug 581796

Summary:	revdep-rebuild --library with age filter
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Robin Johnson <robbat2>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Robin Johnson archtester

2016-05-02 07:49:29 UTC

I was wondering about better incremental usage of 'revdep-rebuild --library', and would like to request that an age comparison be added.

I want to limit it to only files where the file being considered is OLDER than the library.

There are two places it could be done:
1. BUILD_TIME of the packages
2. mtime of ELF objects themselves.

This has two benefits:
1. Avoids rebuilding the same thing multiple times on two passes of revdep-build
2. Limiting the rebuild to only things that actually need it in a set.

This should be implemented in both the bash & python versions.