Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:05:01 +0200
> Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
>> Just for fun I took some of the ideas about alternative management of 
>> the issue and specified the features it makes it worth changing
>> (better management and automated snapshot generation from the live
>> ebuild).
>>
>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero/glep/liveebuild.rst
>>
>> I'd like to see some comment on it (I put it in glep form just now so
>> it isn't exactly perfect)
> 
> * ordering for _pre is wrong.

hm?

> * How are you planning to handle reinstalls? Should installing world
> always reinstall live things? Never? Or what?

depends on the other ebuilds

> * How are live ebuilds selected by the package manager?

live ebuilds gets considered as preN+1 for any purpose.

> * What's the filename for "live ebuild for SVN trunk/"? What about

foo-${version inside trunk}.live?

> "live ebuild for SVN branches/0.26/"?

foo-0.26.live?

What is inside the template is just concern of the ebuild writer. I 
suggest to use the same version as marked in the configure or other 
version value the release will get once upstream decides to release.

lu

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Luca Barbato
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero

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