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On 06/10/2012 11:18 AM, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> On 06/10/2012 05:25 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:55:53 -0700 |
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>> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> A dependency atom will have optional SLOT and ABI_SLOT parts. Using |
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>>> the dbus-glib depedency on glib:2 as an example [1], the dbus-glib |
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>>> dependency will be expressed with an atom such as dev-libs/glib:2:= |
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>>> and the package manager will translate that atom to |
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>>> dev-libs/glib:2:=2.32 at build time. So, ':' is always used to |
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>>> distinguish SLOT deps, and ':=' is always used to distinguish |
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>>> ABI_SLOT deps. Is that syntax good? |
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>> Here's a nicer syntax: no ABI_SLOT variable, and SLOT="2/2.32". Then you |
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>> can do explicit :2/2.32 dependencies if you like, or :2 (which would |
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>> match SLOT="2" or SLOT="2/anything"), or :2= (which gets rewritten |
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>> to :2/2.32=) or :2*. If an ebuild does SLOT="2", it's treated as 2/2. |
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> Yes, I prefer your syntax. |
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In portage-2.1.11.1 and 2.2.0_alpha112 I’ve added support for EAPI |
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“4-slot-abi”: |
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http://blogs.gentoo.org/zmedico/2012/06/23/automatic-rebuilds-with-experimental-eapi-4-slot-abi/ |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |