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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-soc@l.g.o
Cc: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] New idea: auto dependency builder.
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:09:15
Message-Id: 4D86188D.5000507@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-soc] New idea: auto dependency builder. by Fabian Groffen
1 On 03/20/2011 12:32 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > Hi Александр,
3 >
4 > On 19-03-2011 20:21:30 +0000, Александр Берсенев wrote:
5 >> my name is Alexander Besenev, 21. I am russian Computer Science
6 >> student/bachelor.
7 >>
8 >> I have an idea on future GSoC 2011. It is described here:
9 >> http://alexbers.dyndns.org/gsoc/ .
10 >> I hope to find a mentor, who will be interested with this idea.
11 >
12 > I quickly glanced over your proposal. Here are some questions:
13 > - how often is "often" in "on unstable branch compiling often fails
14 > due.."
15 > - have you looked into the preseved-libs feature of Portage-2.2? you may
16 > want to at least refer to it in your proposal
17
18 This auto dependency builder might be useful as a feedback system for
19 reporting ABI changes, which can be used to add ABI metadata to ebuilds
20 in order to trigger automatic rebuild of reverse dependencies as
21 discussed in this bug:
22
23 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192319
24 --
25 Thanks,
26 Zac