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Hi Devs: |
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Bad news: I found a significant bug in Portage 2.0.10 and earlier that |
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could cause masking to work improperly, particularly if a package has a |
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~ entry in the profile's packages file. |
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Good news: I've fixed the problem in Portage 2.0.11 by rewriting |
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portage.py's portdbapi xmatch() and visible() methods. This has |
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resulted in a 44% speed-up in dependency calculations over Portage |
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2.0.10. If you thought things were fast before... |
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More good news: I've improved repoman to differentiate between |
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user-visible ebuilds with bad dependencies and masked ebuilds with bad |
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dependencies. When checking dependencies, user-visible ebuilds' |
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dependencies are only matched against user-visible ebuilds. But when |
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masked ebuilds are checked, deps are satisfied using *all* available |
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ebuilds. This should eliminate virtually all false positives in the |
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repoman DEPEND and RDEPEND QA tests. Type "repoman --help" for more |
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information on these new changes. |
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Enjoy! |
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Daniel Robbins |
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Chief Architect, Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org |
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