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Re: pkg_rr and pkg_admin set rebuild=YES



Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost> writes:

> Is there a reason why pkg_rr doesn't remember which packages it wants to
> build, for instance using "pkg_admin set rebuild=YES pkgname"?
> This would be a big time saver if a run of pkg_rr fails and you need to
> restart it. You can skip the very slow phase of re-running pkg_chk.
>
> An obvious way to do it would be to use "pkg_admin set rebuild=YES
> pkgname", but other options (just write the names to a file which you
> can feed back?) could be useful as well.

No, there is no good reason.

I would use the variable "mismatch", and have 'pkg_rr -u' set that (and
perhaps do nothing else), and pkg_rr without -u also treat mismatch=yes
packages as being in the replaceent set along with unsafe_depends and
rebuild.

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