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On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:29:05AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 23:56:34 +0200 |
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> Andy Mender <andymenderunix@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I believe the main problem comes from /bin/bash and potential symlinks that |
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> > would need to be introduced as part of the slotting. |
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> In a pinch you could probably get away with |
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> calling :1 /usr/bin/bash-4.4 instead of /usr/bin/bash, and then |
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> offering no luxuries beyond that, leaving it up to the user to do the rest. |
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> Then you could test it in ~/ with PATH + Symlink in ~/bin/ ... maybe. |
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> There would just not be much point, because the real purpose of testing |
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> 4.4 is not for fear of it breaking user experience ( which is a |
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> problem, but not the primary motive ), but for making everything else |
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> that runs with bash runs OK. |
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> Maybe you could do some horrible QA Violation like USE=multislot |
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> which changes the slot from :0 and adds the -suffix at the same time. |
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> But I still don't think its a useful or good idea. |
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I am against it as well. The purpose of this testing is to eventually |
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move to bash-4.4 being stable and replacing bash-4.3, so slotting it |
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would make that more complex later. |
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William |
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