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From: Vlastimil Babka <caster@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: stabilizing expat 2.0.0
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 18:41:46
Message-Id: 464CA12B.2020308@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: stabilizing expat 2.0.0 by "Rémi Cardona"
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4 Rémi Cardona wrote:
5 > Chris Gianelloni wrote:
6 >> It's simple. You mask expat-2.0.0 on all the current profiles, we mark
7 >> it stable in the snapshot and don't have it masked in the 2007.1
8 >> profile. When we release (actually right before), we mark the package
9 >> stable in the tree. We document the expat upgrade as part of the
10 >> profile upgrade guide, and we're done. Users using a <=2007.0 profile
11 >> never see the upgrade. New users use the new expat. Users changing to
12 >> the 2007.1 profile run revdep-rebuild.
13 >
14 > Now, how can we do this? Could we start changing the profiles right now?
15 > (I guess people on ~arch will need to unmask it to not downgrade).
16
17 That can be avoided if you make an artifical revbump that won't change
18 anything, just have stable keywords, and you mask that revision
19 specifically.
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21 Vlastimil Babka (Caster)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: stabilizing expat 2.0.0 Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>