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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] kernel-2.eclass: Support EAPI 6 when applying user patches.
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:50:19
Message-Id: 20161129124949.175f147a.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] kernel-2.eclass: Support EAPI 6 when applying user patches. by "Michał Górny"
1 On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:46:18 +0100
2 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 06:42:44 -0500
5 > Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > On 11/27/2016 09:06 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
8 > > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o> wrote:
9 > > >> If kernel-2_src_unpack() is called in EAPI6, epatch_user() function
10 > > >> inherited from eutils.eclass is undefined.
11 > > >> See bug #579188
12 > > >
13 > > > kernel-2.eclass currently calls die in global scope for EAPI 6, so
14 > > > this change has no real effect.
15 > > >
16 > > > I would suggest modernizing the eclass before allowing it to be used
17 > > > with EAPI 6. For example, patches should be applied in src_prepare,
18 > > > not src_unpack.
19 > > >
20 > >
21 > > Is this change not a step in the right direction? Or should it just be
22 > > one big bang?
23 > > All or nothing?
24 >
25 > While I don't mean incremental changes, I'd really prefer if they made
26
27 s/mean/mind/.
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30 --
31 Best regards,
32 Michał Górny
33 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>