Gentoo Archives: gentoo-java

From: Vlastimil Babka <caster@g.o>
To: gentoo-java@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Last rites: dev-java/jcs-bin
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:59:25
Message-Id: 46320FAD.8010205@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-java] Last rites: dev-java/jcs-bin by "Petteri Räty"
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4 Petteri Räty wrote:
5 > Vlastimil Babka kirjoitti:
6 >> Krzysiek Pawlik wrote:
7 >>> +# Krzysiek Pawlik <nelchael@g.o> (27 Apr 2007)
8 >>> +# Mask binary-only version of jcs, please use dev-java/jcs,
9 >>> +# will be removed from the tree around end of May.
10 >>> +dev-java/jcs-bin
11 >>> +
12 >>> "end of May" is 27 of May ;)
13 >> how bout pkgmove for easier transition? versions would allow that
14 >
15 > I have found that pkgmove causes more problems than it's worth. For
16 > example you can't be sure that the user actually has the right
17 > /usr/share/${PN} unless you depend on a version that jcs-bin didn't have
18 > and people can't be expected to know this a year from now etc. pkgmove's
19 > are useful for pure applications though were it doesn't matter if we
20 > have Portage thinking you have ${PN} installed but the files in the
21 > system are ${PN}-bin.
22
23 Oh, didn't know this, OK. Thought that slotmove only ensures that -bin
24 upgrades to non-bin, not this. BTW slotmoves are the same, you probably
25 know already, so we also shouldn't do those.
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27 Vlastimil Babka (Caster)
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