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On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:36:15 +0000 |
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Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> writes: |
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> > well, not quite. the way we agreed in the past was to not revbump the masked |
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> > package, but once it was unmasked, we revbump it just once at that point. |
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Gotcha. |
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> Is there somewhere which tells users when there are upgrades to |
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> toolchain packages which are not revbumped once they have been unmasked |
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> and in ~arch? |
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At least for gcc I put bug numbers and info into the ChangeLog. If you're |
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fanatic you can subscribe to the gentoo-commits ml and set up some filters |
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(that's what I do ;)). |
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Generally if you're not actively hitting a showstopping bug, you don't need |
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the update. And if you are, you're probably on the CC list in bugzilla. |
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> A case in point, glibc-2.12.1-r3. When I rebuilt this following the |
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> merging of linux-headers-2.6.36, the rebuilt downloaded about 700K of |
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> patches. |
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As Mike said, this was adding support for other architectures that were |
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previously not keyworded. |
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fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense |
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toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take it free anytime |
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