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From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] can't emerge app-arch/rpm
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:44:33
Message-Id: 1213368268.12702.350.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] can't emerge app-arch/rpm by Fabian Groffen
1 On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 16:38 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 13-06-2008 15:35:25 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
3 > > Sorry Jeremy, I realise that it's part of a patch that failed. What I
4 > > failed to understand is why Fabian decided to cut & paste the import
5 > > process and show that something failed patching did an edit on it and
6 > > then further went on to commit it.
7 > >
8 > > It'd be much easier to understand if Fabian just said "o.k. done, but
9 > > it's untested".
10 >
11 > I thought maybe people are interested to know how I just do it, and
12 > figure out if they can do that themselves too. It helps us when someone
13 > can tell "I did this, and it works after that", where "this" and "that"
14 > are things we know (command, patch).
15
16 Well, if that's the case, it would have been nice to explain what you
17 were doing rather than just cut & paste and expect people to just know
18 what happened.
19
20 I'm quite happy to learn the processes, but an explanation would have
21 been useful as well.
22
23 > > > Sorry that it took so long for a dev to respond to your request but
24 > > > this is precisely one of the reasons that I would prefer bug reports
25 > > > on bugzilla rather than the ML. I forget to 'fix things' that are
26 > > > presented on the ML and then they get buried and I won't be able to
27 > > > easily tell what needs to happen.
28 > >
29 > > bugs can also get easily forgotten, and need pinging from time to time
30 > > to get things moving.
31 >
32 > Sorry, this is mainly the case for non-trivial bugs, and overflow
33 > situations on the active devs for this project.
34
35 That's o.k.
36
37 Alan.
38
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Re: [gentoo-alt] can't emerge app-arch/rpm Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>