Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: package.keywords-compatible snippets when stabilizing multiple packages

[Tobias Klausmann]

Hi! 

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 09:10 Tue 15 Feb, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
> > Le lundi 14 février 2011 à 19:19 +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." a écrit :
> > > On 2/14/11 9:13 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> > > > And http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349053#c1 ?   I tried to
> > > > provide a clue howto get usable p.keywords list easy.
> > >
> > > IMHO it's in the middle. I still have to do a manual step, but at least
> > > it's pretty straightforward. Anyway, I think a list that can be blindly
> > > copy-pasted makes things even easier.
> >
> > I don't think making a list for each arch is going to make anything any
> > easier for maintainers requesting stabilization, which means those list
> > we need more time to generate before being released. You just move the
> > problem to another place.
>
> Why would you need to do that? Can't you just make a single list that
> either has keywords for every arch or a ** ? Presumably every arch needs
> a certain set of packages stable, and it doesn't matter if you
> redundantly specify packages that are already stable.

Yes it does. I for one just use the list, compile and test all
the packages. If an entry is already stable, that effort is
wasted.

I think automatically generating per-arch lists and dumping them
on the bug is a nice way to do it. Having a "tabled list" for use
by the maintainer and then generating one comment per
arch-specific list seems like a good idea to me. Yes it is more
verbose on the bug, but that is a little price to pay, I'd say.

Regards,
Tobias

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