On Saturday 23 February 2008, Erik wrote: > I am running > emerge -ef world > eclean --destructive distfiles' > emerge -ef world > eclean --destructive distfiles > ... > > Each time eclean removes the following files: > * Building file list for distfiles cleaning... > * Cleaning distfiles... > [ 258.9 K ] XML-LibXML-1.65.tar.gz > [ 478.6 K ] klibc-1.5.8.tar.bz2 > [ 290.2 K ] libassuan-1.0.4.tar.bz2 > [ 67.7 K ] mftrace-1.2.9.tar.gz > [ 9.2 M ] patch-2.6.24-rc7.bz2 > [ 243.4 K ] setuptools-0.6c7.tar.gz > * Total space that has been freed in distfiles directory: 10.5 M > > Then emerge downloads them again. I had expected that those 2 > programs should agree on which files belong in the set of distfiles.
What happens if you use 'emerge -uNDf world" instead of 'emerge -ef world' -e is a special case and does not equate to the same thing as -uND -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list