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From: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:23:26
Message-Id: 20101123092410.3a9e128b@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Hi,
2
3 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>:
4 > On 11/23/2010 09:32 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 > > On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 01:36:15 Graham Murray wrote:
6 > >> Mike Frysinger<vapier@g.o> writes:
7 > >>> well, not quite. the way we agreed in the past was to not
8 > >>> revbump the masked package, but once it was unmasked, we revbump
9 > >>> it just once at that point.
10 > >>
11 > >> Is there somewhere which tells users when there are upgrades to
12 > >> toolchain packages which are not revbumped once they have been
13 > >> unmasked and in ~arch?
14 > >
15 > > if they arent revbumped, then the changes dont matter to you
16 >
17 > This isn't always the case though, due to developer mistakes.
18 > Sometimes when doing emerge -e system, there are changes in /etc
19 > files that affect runtime behavior rather than build behavior. And
20 > it seems to happen quite often. This is with non-masked packages
21 > though.
22
23 Sometimes it is not a mistake but laziness. Some minor fixes in
24 configuration files are quite common.
25
26 V-Li
27
28 --
29 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
30 <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
31
32 <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>

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