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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Our profiles/updates handling is not smart enough
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:24:01
Message-Id: 20070427132224.099518c3.genone@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Our profiles/updates handling is not smart enough by "Petteri Räty"
1 On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:00:18 +0300
2 Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > betelgeuse@pena ~ $ grep javahelp -r /usr/portage/profiles/updates/
5 > /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2004:move dev-java/javahelp
6 > dev-java/javahelp-bin
7 >
8 > Well nowadays Sun has put javahelp under GPL so now we have
9 > dev-java/javahelp again. The problem is that Portage now uses this old
10 > entry to rename the package back to javahelp-bin.
11 >
12 > betelgeuse@pena ~ $ qfile /usr/bin/jhindexer
13 > dev-java/javahelp-bin (/usr/bin/jhindexer)
14 >
15 > So should we make it a policy to remove old entries after some time, or
16 > make sure people check for old entries when adding new ones?
17
18 I used to remove old "updates" files from time to time in the past,
19 guess it's time to do it again.
20
21 Marius
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Our profiles/updates handling is not smart enough Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>