perl-cleaner --all -- -1va * Updating installed Perl virtuals * emerge -uD1 virtual/perl-Archive-Tar virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Command virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Install virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Manifest virtual/perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS virtual/perl-File-Spec virtual/perl-File-Temp virtual/perl-IO virtual/perl-IO-Compress virtual/perl-IO-Zlib virtual/perl-IPC-Cmd virtual/perl-JSON-PP virtual/perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple virtual/perl-Module-Build virtual/perl-Module-CoreList virtual/perl-Module-Load virtual/perl-Module-Load-Conditional virtual/perl-Module-Metadata virtual/perl-Package-Constants virtual/perl-Params-Check virtual/perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta virtual/perl-Perl-OSType virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils virtual/perl-Test-Harness virtual/perl-Test-Simple virtual/perl-version Calculating dependencies... done! my -1va, --ask in particular, is ignored here. At various times I had to kill perl-cleaner, as it would have went and upgraded 200 completely unrelated items on my ARM (including conversion from stage tarball stable to ~arm), while me not having any chance to review my USE flags. The other steps seem to properly honor it: * Locating packages for an update * Locating ebuilds linked against libperl * Adding to list: dev-perl/TermReadKey:0 * Adding to list: app-text/po4a:0 * emerge -vD1 --backtrack=30 -1va dev-perl/TermReadKey:0 app-text/po4a:0 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] dev-perl/TermReadKey-2.300.200-r1 [2.300.200] 0 KiB [ebuild U ] app-text/po4a-0.45 [0.42] USE="{-test}" 0 KiB Total: 2 packages (2 upgrades), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
Well, there's a certain reason for it... while supplying additional packager options is a nice feature, it's in the end not supportable for every combination. The whole point of the first two commands is to make the update process "unfailable". FYI, perl-cleaner itself also has a pretend option, and that is honored. (I.e. the first two commands are not executed at all for now then. It might be possible to also run them also with -p, but since the result of one command influences the next, that's all of doubtful value.) [Taking the bug since I've done the last few releases.]
Been hit by this on all boxes i'm administering. This is not fun, especially the '-q' that i used to pass after -- My usual command, fyi : perl-cleaner --all -- -qvta --keep-going -j 3 --load-average=6
I'm primarily interested in --ask getting down to each of those, so I can see a list of the non-perl updates before they happen. For example currently perl-cleaner --all -- -1va is upgrading _bash_ from 4.2 to 4.3 for me, without really telling me...
I've just added 2.18, which passes all arguments after "--" to all portage commands. [It also outputs a fat warning then.]
