Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] QA Notice ...
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:23:00
Message-Id: 1262647438.16683.4051.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] QA Notice ... by Fabian Groffen
1 On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 18:01 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 04-01-2010 16:26:26 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
3 > > > Your diff basically has 1) STARTDIR/UNIXMODE filtering and 2) setting of
4 > > > Prefix vars, which zmedico (Portage maintainer) believes are
5 > > > unnecessary.
6 > > >
7 > > > is 1) in any way relevant? I can imagine 2) to be related, since we
8 > > > added it at some point as it was necessary.
9 > >
10 > > UNIXMODE is for FreeMiNT, so that will need adding. But if I remove any
11 > > part of STARTDIR then things fall apart.
12 > >
13 > > Also, I've tried removing the prefix var settings for EROOT and ROOT and
14 > > things also fall apart without it. I'll be trying EPREFIX when I get
15 > > chance.
16 >
17 > I'm analyzing this with the commits made here, and this is what I've
18 > noticed sofar:
19 >
20 >
21 > r15113 | grobian | 2009-12-18 09:22:04 +0100 (Fri, 18 Dec 2009) | 1 line
22 >
23 > Remove redundant EPREFIX setting since it's already initialized earlier
24 > in the config constructor. (r15044)
25 >
26 > This is only the self["EPREFIX"] = EPREFIX for portageq bit.
27 >
28 > I can't find the other in the separate commits, but I see it in the full
29 > diff :S
30
31 Is there anything I can do to help what's needs to happen ?
32
33 At the moment, all I can see is that these changes need reverting to
34 unbreak things.
35
36 Alan.

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Re: [gentoo-alt] QA Notice ... Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>