Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue

[Pacho Ramos]

El jue, 07-06-2012 a las 12:09 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
> On 06/07/2012 12:00 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > El jue, 07-06-2012 a las 19:44 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió:
> >> On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:43:54 +0200
> >> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
> >>>> I would prefer, as a workaround, allow reverse deps to RDEPEND on
> >>>> glib:2.* instead. That way it would cover more cases when more than
> >>>> two slots are available
> >>>
> >>> Well, per:
> >>> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commitdiff;h=f9f7729c047300e1924ad768a49c660e12c2f906;hp=b7750e67b4772c1064543defb7df6a556f09807b
> >>>
> >>> looks like "*" usage for SLOTs would be allowed :), or I am
> >>> misinterpreting it?
> >>
> >> It's not a wildcard.
> >>
> >
> > But it looks like a valid usage for cases like glib vs.
> > dbus-glib/gobject-introspection I have exposed as example, and also
> > allows us to keep "SLOT" over "ABI_SLOT" (at least for this case, not
> > sure about others I could be missing now...)
>
> The :* operator doesn't trigger any rebuilds though. Quoting the PMS
> patch that you linked:
>
> * Indicates that any slot value is acceptable. In addition, for runtime
> dependencies, indicates that the package will not break if the matched
> package is uninstalled and replaced by a different matching package in a
> different slot.

I mean, use it in conjunction with ":=", one for rebuild and other to
indicate any 2.x SLOT fits the "normal" RDEPEND (to not need to
periodically update RDEPENDs or need to go back from :SLOT depends to
old =category/package-version-* ways)

Allowing that, we wouldn't need ABI_SLOT (at least to prevent this issue
that arises with using only SLOTs for this)