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From: Spider <spider@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Integrity (Was: gcc ebuild's, downgrades, deletion etc)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:32:37
Message-Id: 20030314143233.6bbc3f81.spider@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Integrity (Was: gcc ebuild's, downgrades, deletion etc) by Alain Penders
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2 On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 06:19:17 -0700
3 Alain Penders <alain@g.o> wrote:
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5 > > I'm forced to proofread the new builds completely as to avoid
6 > > getting messed over.
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8 > Maybe because they trust that all our developers know how to diff a
9 > submitted ebuild against the last approved one?
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11 What do you think I mean with proofread, really?
12 (vimdiff and gtkdiff are both quite handy on larger stuff , gdm comes to
13 mind as more or less a nightmareish example)
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16 > Even with a changelog entry, I would never add a user-submitted ebuild
17 > without diffing it and making sure I know what changed and why.
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19 of course not, I'm not inclined to have my or others systems compromised
20 or messed over, But my point is: adding a ChangeLog or stating what is
21 done difference does make a change when submitting a build for something
22 thats already in the tree.
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25 //Spider
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Integrity (Was: gcc ebuild's, downgrades, deletion etc) Matt Tucker <tuck@×××××××××××××.net>