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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2007-09-30 18:57:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2007-09-30 18:57:25 +0000 |
| commit | 6eeb6fd8c40df09d0c5d462c5fa91e8e7b273b40 (patch) | |
| tree | cf9cea225648f39f38c344631fc0519bff54a439 | |
| parent | e31413b58cf1bef87e6c33ca067e17c0e2d1fdfc (diff) | |
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Document interaction between config.setinst() and
old-style virtuals preferences.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=7891
| -rw-r--r-- | pym/portage/__init__.py | 7 |
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diff --git a/pym/portage/__init__.py b/pym/portage/__init__.py index 24b246be7..8ffe9c275 100644 --- a/pym/portage/__init__.py +++ b/pym/portage/__init__.py @@ -1896,6 +1896,13 @@ class config(object): return ret 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() |