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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Our profiles/updates handling is not smart enough
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:03:09
Message-Id: 4630F6C2.3050407@gentoo.org
1 betelgeuse@pena ~ $ grep javahelp -r /usr/portage/profiles/updates/
2 /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2004:move dev-java/javahelp
3 dev-java/javahelp-bin
4
5 Well nowadays Sun has put javahelp under GPL so now we have
6 dev-java/javahelp again. The problem is that Portage now uses this old
7 entry to rename the package back to javahelp-bin.
8
9 betelgeuse@pena ~ $ qfile /usr/bin/jhindexer
10 dev-java/javahelp-bin (/usr/bin/jhindexer)
11
12 So should we make it a policy to remove old entries after some time, or
13 make sure people check for old entries when adding new ones? zmedico
14 also had some ideas on how to possible make Portage smarter wrt this.
15
16 Regards,
17 Petteri

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