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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:04:01
Message-Id: 4FE86187.6050503@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue by Zac Medico
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4 On 23/06/12 08:42 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
5 > On 06/10/2012 11:18 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
6 >> On 06/10/2012 05:25 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
7 >>> On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:55:53 -0700 Zac Medico
8 >>> <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
9 >>>> A dependency atom will have optional SLOT and ABI_SLOT parts.
10 >>>> Using the dbus-glib depedency on glib:2 as an example [1],
11 >>>> the dbus-glib dependency will be expressed with an atom such
12 >>>> as dev-libs/glib:2:= and the package manager will translate
13 >>>> that atom to dev-libs/glib:2:=2.32 at build time. So, ':' is
14 >>>> always used to distinguish SLOT deps, and ':=' is always used
15 >>>> to distinguish ABI_SLOT deps. Is that syntax good?
16 >>>
17 >>> Here's a nicer syntax: no ABI_SLOT variable, and SLOT="2/2.32".
18 >>> Then you can do explicit :2/2.32 dependencies if you like, or
19 >>> :2 (which would match SLOT="2" or SLOT="2/anything"), or :2=
20 >>> (which gets rewritten to :2/2.32=) or :2*. If an ebuild does
21 >>> SLOT="2", it's treated as 2/2.
22 >>
23 >> Yes, I prefer your syntax.
24 >
25 > In portage-2.1.11.1 and 2.2.0_alpha112 I’ve added support for EAPI
26 > “4-slot-abi”:
27 >
28 >
29 > http://blogs.gentoo.org/zmedico/2012/06/23/automatic-rebuilds-with-experimental-eapi-4-slot-abi/
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32 Does
33 >
34 anyone have a fork of the tree that's being converted to test
35 this new functionality? If so I'd like to sign up.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>