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On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>wrote: |
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> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> > 2) That won't necessarily stop the bugs from rolling in. Some devs may |
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> > get tired of live pkg bugs and package.mask it, thus putting up a double- |
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> > barrier to the live ebuild. If users jump BOTH barriers and fall over |
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> > the ledge, well... maybe they /need/ that Darwin Award! =:^] |
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> We had something interesting happen with policykit. It was masked for |
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> a very long time, and so all users of policykit had |
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> "sys-auth/policykit" in p.unmask. Then it was unmasked, but of course |
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> who bothers cleaning up their local configuration as long as it works? |
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> Months later, policykit-0.92 was added (masked) which was ABI, API, |
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> UI, everything incompatible. Naturally portage on said users' boxes |
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> was very happy to see such an update on the system and it very |
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> promptly upgraded policykit. |
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> And of course it completely hosed everything on top of X. |
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> We received bug reports for this a *long* time after adding it. After |
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> getting sick of duping, and since the new ebuild was broken in a few |
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> ways too (and we had decided to rename policykit-0.92 it to |
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> sys-auth/polkit), we finally decided to remove it. |
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> Lesson to be learnt: users are morons with short attention spans[1]. |
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> But we cannot ignore that fact. |
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In such cases users should be using version specific/version ranges for |
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p.keywords/p.unmask. |
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I don't recall seeing much literature on this practice though with regards |
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to standard recommendations of users and how they should use their own |
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p.keywords and p.unmask. |
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Maybe a good standard practice would be to *not* use ranged p.masks and have |
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explicit =version p.masks, so that users who use the commonly available |
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scripts that just copy from p.mask to p.unmask don't get silently bitten as |
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a consequence. |
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-- |
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Kent |
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perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) |
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for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" |
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http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz |
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