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On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 09:55:18AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Sun, 23 Sep 2012, Micha? G?rny wrote: |
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> >> > \section{Restrictions upon Names} |
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> >> > |
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> >> > -No name may be empty. Package managers must not impose fixed upper boundaries upon the length of any |
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> >> > -name. A package manager should indicate or reject any name that is invalid according to these rules. |
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> >> > +No name may be empty. Package managers must not impose fixed upper |
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> >> > +boundaries upon the length of any name. A package manager should |
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> >> > +indicate or reject any name that is invalid according to these rules. |
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> >> > +Package managers are allowed to accept names not following those rules. |
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> [Restored proper line breaks, for readability.] |
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> >> "Here's some rules. You must abide by them. Or you can ignore them." |
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> The existing spec only says "a package manager should indicate or |
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> reject any name that is invalid". So it is sufficient if the PM emits |
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> a warning, even with the current spec. |
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Reality is otherwise; they all fail it. A warning for something like |
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this isn't sane- errors are realistically the option for data of this |
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sort. |
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locally mangled, s/netcat6/netcat-6/ |
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emerge -p qemu-init-scripts |
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!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "qemu-init-scripts" have been masked. |
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!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your |
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request: |
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- app-emulation/qemu-init-scripts-0.2::qemu-init (masked by: invalid: |
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RDEPEND: Invalid atom (net-analyzer/netcat-6), token 9) |
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pmerge -p qemu-init-scripts |
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Metadata Exception: pkg ebuild src: |
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app-emulation/qemu-init-scripts-0.2, attr rdepends |
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|| ( app-emulation/qemu-kvm app-emulation/qemu ) || ( net-misc/socat |
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net-analyzer/netcat-6 ) is unparseable: atom 'net-analyzer/netcat-6' |
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is malformed: error net-analyzer/netcat-6 |
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flagged token- net-analyzer/netcat-6 |
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Full stop. This isn't "loosen the spec in a way that doesn't matter", |
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it's "break shit and pretend it doesn't." |
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This isn't a new fact, and it's not as if it's hard to verify it |
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(read any PM source, hell, just mangle an ebuild). |
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As for the rest of it, already blasted the mindless chatter angle of |
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this, no point in picking at it further. |
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~harring |
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