When caches are missing, calls to eqatag can be prohibitively expensive when a large number of files where found. Those files do not necessaryily belong to the current package, so it is also a false positive. The second patch in this pull request disables the eqawarn/eqatag messages when caches are missing: https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/207
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=361f820b88deda2840396d11c8c8a462dfb435a7 commit 361f820b88deda2840396d11c8c8a462dfb435a7 Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2017-09-19 23:10:04 +0000 Commit: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2017-09-19 23:26:32 +0000 postinst-qa-check.d: fix false positive and expensive eqatag on first run When caches were missing, calls to eqatag could be prohibitively expensive when a large number of files where found. Those files did not necessaryily belong to the current package, so it was also a false positive. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/631454 bin/postinst-qa-check.d/50gnome2-utils | 8 +++++--- bin/postinst-qa-check.d/50xdg-utils | 16 ++++++++++------ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)}
Fixed in 2.3.10.
