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Bug 30659 - emerge strips out the keepwork feature when starting up the emerge process
Summary: emerge strips out the keepwork feature when starting up the emerge process
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2003-10-08 05:52 UTC by Jeff Stuart
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:19 UTC (History)
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Description Jeff Stuart 2003-10-08 05:52:15 UTC 
When I try to use the keepwork feature, there is code SPECIFICALY in emerge that strips 
out the keepwork feature before calling unpack.  Specifically lines 1301-1308 do this:  
 
                # We need to yank the harmful-to-new-builds settings from features. 
                myorigfeat=portage.settings["FEATURES"] 
                myfeat=myorigfeat.split() 
                while ("keeptemp" in myfeat): 
                        del myfeat[myfeat.index("keeptemp")] 
                while ("keepwork" in myfeat): 
                        del myfeat[myfeat.index("keepwork")] 
                portage.settings["FEATURES"]=string.join(myfeat) 
 
While this is ok for normal packages, for CVS packages such as the KDE group, it causes 
the working directory to be deleted every time I emerge the packages.  And this is a 
problem because it takes me 10 hours to recompile all of KDE even WITH ccache.  It would 
be MUCH nicer if keepwork wasn't being stripped initially. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set the feature keepwork 
2. Emerge a package  
3. Then re-emerge the same package and watch as your work directory gets blasted into 
never never land. :) 
Actual Results:  
emerge deleted the workdir.  

Expected Results:  
emerge should have left the workdir alone. 

emerge info: 
 
Portage 2.0.49-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gaming-r5) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.20-gaming-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 
ccache version 2.2 [enabled] 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe " 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/
config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config /usr/
X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/cvs/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/
tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe " 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox usersandbox noclean ccache userpriv keepwork" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/
pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.noved.org/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx 
mpeg ncurses pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb gdbm slang 
readline arts tetex aalib nas bonobo svga ggi tcltk java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww 
ssl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl cdr scanner mysql apache2 mozilla 
gd innodb gtkhtml curl alsa xface tiff perl gtk2 -gnome clamav ofx -nls breakme berkdb"
Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-12-24 12:25:11 UTC 
keepwork will not work that way. It is intended for use with 'ebuild'.