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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2007-10-05 01:46:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2007-10-05 01:46:52 +0000 |
| commit | 2338df45f605f74d8300baf99f806cc738578fb2 (patch) | |
| tree | dc795a83ee320f3dd16c466be22c89571b908f97 | |
| parent | 9c204da5ddcc01ce31635234c58c04e46f487c74 (diff) | |
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Document interaction between config.setinst() and
old-style virtuals preferences. (trunk r7891)
svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=7924
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diff --git a/pym/portage.py b/pym/portage.py index 66edec936..3c8dc25b1 100644 --- a/pym/portage.py +++ b/pym/portage.py @@ -1848,6 +1848,13 @@ class config: self.reset(keeping_pkg=1,use_cache=use_cache) def setinst(self,mycpv,mydbapi): + """This updates the preferences for old-style virtuals, + affecting the behavior of dep_expand() and dep_check() + calls. It can change dbapi.match() behavior since that + calls dep_expand(). However, dbapi instances have + internal match caches that are not invalidated when + preferences are updated here. This can potentially + lead to some inconsistency (relevant to bug #1343).""" self.modifying() if len(self.virtuals) == 0: self.getvirtuals() |