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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 05:00:39PM +0800, Michael Kohl wrote: |
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> Also it maybe would be a nice thing to have a switch for this script to |
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> automatically submit all packages which it finds where installed using |
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> ~ARCH as "emerged sucessfully" (which I suppose they were if they land |
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> in /var/db/pkg). This way it would be possible to set it up as a cronjob |
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> so people (who are generally lazy from my experience) wouldn't have to |
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> rate each package individually. Althoug this information is not quite as |
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> good as "the full thing" but somehow I doubt all this people would be |
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> running gentoo-stats if they had to do more then set up the crontab |
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> once... |
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You have several valid points. I agree that people are lazy and they |
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would probably not run gentoo-stats if it wasn't croned. Although I |
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don't see the need of a script that would check for if a package was |
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emerged correctly. This could as well be done by emerge when it |
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detects it is installing an ~ARCH package. This way you don't have to |
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wonder if it's a 'current' package or not. |
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Heck, you could use the same mechanism for reporting 'stable' packages |
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when they fail. |
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However, a successful emerge is only one of the critieria for an |
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unstable package to move to stable. It not crashing runtime is |
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another... |
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Actually, the more I think of it, the whole point is moot... |
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stable.gentoo.org might be a good idea, but why not replace it with |
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stats.gentoo.org? If I submit a stat report which tells me that I have |
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the latest version of a package installed, you could assume that it |
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works for me. If not, I'd post a bugreport. And if I couldn't be arsed |
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to set up gentoo-stats and post bugs about things that doesn't work, |
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why would I use stable.gentoo.org anyway? |
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Please, don't see this as an attack on stable.gentoo.org, just trying |
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to see it in another perspective... And I probably missed something in |
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that generalization... |
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> Sorry for this rather long a quite unfocussed post, mid-term exams are |
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> on the horizon again so I maybe should just shut up and grab my books... |
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Exams are important, but so is gentoo. ;) |
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//H |
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