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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ruby keywording
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:10:51
Message-Id: 20120307130935.26c60766@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ruby keywording by Thomas Kahle
1 On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 15:54:49 +0100
2 Thomas Kahle <tomka@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 09:25 Wed 07 Mar 2012, Alexis Ballier wrote:
5 > > On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:00:16 +0100
6 > > ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
7 > > > > Also the inter-bug dependencies are often not resolved
8 > > > > correctly, that is the to be keyworded package depends on
9 > > > > non-keyworded stuff not listed in the bug.
10 > > >
11 > > > And this is even worse. Please check things with repoman before
12 > > > filing bugs. You can even write automated scripts at least for
13 > > > the "check whether we got all deps right" part.
14 > >
15 > > As a maintainer I can tell you that when you drop keywords on B
16 > > because it needs non keyworded A, then drop keywords on C because
17 > > it needs latest B then drop keywords on D because it needs latest
18 > > C, you have completely forgotten that some arches need A, which
19 > > ones, etc. There are scripts for this, and I hope arch teams that
20 > > like to have a list use them.
21 >
22 > What scripts are out there? I just do iterated repoman calls without
23 > much automation (pretty much as described below). Got anything
24 > better? -> please post it!
25 >
26
27 gnome team posts nice lists afaik:
28 http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gnome.git;a=blob;f=scripts/gen_archlist.py