From 6eeb6fd8c40df09d0c5d462c5fa91e8e7b273b40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Medico Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:57:25 +0000 Subject: Document interaction between config.setinst() and old-style virtuals preferences. svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=7891 --- pym/portage/__init__.py | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'pym') 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() -- cgit v1.2.3-1-g7c22