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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:42:54
Message-Id: 4FE6625A.1040309@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue by Zac Medico
1 On 06/10/2012 11:18 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 06/10/2012 05:25 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 >> On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:55:53 -0700
4 >> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
5 >>> A dependency atom will have optional SLOT and ABI_SLOT parts. Using
6 >>> the dbus-glib depedency on glib:2 as an example [1], the dbus-glib
7 >>> dependency will be expressed with an atom such as dev-libs/glib:2:=
8 >>> and the package manager will translate that atom to
9 >>> dev-libs/glib:2:=2.32 at build time. So, ':' is always used to
10 >>> distinguish SLOT deps, and ':=' is always used to distinguish
11 >>> ABI_SLOT deps. Is that syntax good?
12 >>
13 >> Here's a nicer syntax: no ABI_SLOT variable, and SLOT="2/2.32". Then you
14 >> can do explicit :2/2.32 dependencies if you like, or :2 (which would
15 >> match SLOT="2" or SLOT="2/anything"), or :2= (which gets rewritten
16 >> to :2/2.32=) or :2*. If an ebuild does SLOT="2", it's treated as 2/2.
17 >
18 > Yes, I prefer your syntax.
19
20 In portage-2.1.11.1 and 2.2.0_alpha112 I’ve added support for EAPI
21 “4-slot-abi”:
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24 http://blogs.gentoo.org/zmedico/2012/06/23/automatic-rebuilds-with-experimental-eapi-4-slot-abi/
25 --
26 Thanks,
27 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>