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Am Samstag 30 Juni 2012, 13:22:39 schrieb Zac Medico: |
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> On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> > I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: |
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> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 |
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> > |
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> > Even if there are "a lot" of packages that can cause this breakage when |
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> > downgraded, I think it should be prevented and package managers |
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> > shouldn't try to downgrade this kind of packages as they will later |
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> > cause a total breakage. People is not supposed to know that downgrading |
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> > some package system will, for example, have an unusable gcc. |
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> It seems like a die in pkg_pretend would serve pretty well. |
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As a comparatively simple, user-oriented workaround, since this only happens |
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at downgrades and these should be pretty rare, I have the following |
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suggestion: |
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Make a portage feature that is **on by default**, which causes portage to |
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generate a binpkg of the version to be unmerged, in the case of a downgrade. |
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Rationale: |
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* if you know what you are doing, you can switch this off easily |
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* does not take much space since downgrades are rare |
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* should help our users a lot, whenever someone accidentally or not-knowingly |
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downgrades something critical. |
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Thoughts? |
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Cheers, |
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Andreas |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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