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Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o> posted |
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200905211957.55040.Arfrever@g.o, excerpted below, on Thu, 21 May |
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2009 19:57:49 +0200: |
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> 2009-05-20 20:00:43 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a): |
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>> On Wed, 20 May 2009 19:12:56 +0200 |
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>> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > This error occurs only when there is no up-to-date cache for given |
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>> > ebuild. rsync users would see only the usual "masked by: EAPI 3" |
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>> > message. |
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>> We always have to assume that there might not be an up to date cache. |
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>> The Gentoo rsync mirrors do not always ship up to date cache, |
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>> particularly if someone's just changed a widely used eclass. |
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> Users can wait an hour and run `emerge --sync` again. Anyway, Portage |
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> still allows to install other ebuilds (with lower EAPI) of given |
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> package, so this corner case doesn't need to slow down progress. |
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Except that users are STRONGLY encouraged (on threat of ban) from syncing |
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more than once a day. A 24-hour wait can seem like a long time, |
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especially when you're doing your weekly update on your one off day a |
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week, so it's effectively a 7-day wait, or you were updating your folks |
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computer on holiday and it could be a multi-month wait, or when |
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something's broken that you're depending on to make that presentation in |
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the morning and you know the new version fixes it because the bug said so. |
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If we're going to be saying wait an hour, then let's get rid of the wait |
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24-hours thing. Otherwise, that's mixed messages to users and as Ciaran |
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points out, users get confused by such things. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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