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From: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Bash features
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:12:52
Message-Id: 20100109155838.54af0e43@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-pms] Bash features by Ulrich Mueller
1 Hi,
2
3 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>:
4
5 > >>>>> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
6 >
7 > > On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 00:42:01 +0100
8 > > Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote:
9 > >> as I now learnt, Bash 3.2 vanilla is not enough for some eclasses
10 > >> to run. Patchlevel 48 is needed.
11 >
12 > What eclasses are this? _p48 isn't marked as stable.
13
14 So it is another patch level, but vanilla Bash 3.2 won't work with
15 python.eclass at different positions (mostly if conditions, can't tell
16 what part exactly).
17
18 > >> Should we tighten the version string for Bash?
19 >
20 > I don't think there's a need for this, as the patches are only
21 > bugfixes.
22
23 Sure, but the tree is hit by a needed bug fix. I researched a lot,
24 because I bootstrapped with vanilla 3.2 and did not accuse it of the
25 failures I saw. Maybe something like "the latest available" is doable.
26
27 V-Li
28
29 --
30 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
31 <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
32
33 <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>

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