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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for September
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:29:29
Message-Id: 48C971CA.4080400@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for September by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
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4 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
5 > On Thursday 11 September 2008 17:42:25 Zac Medico wrote:
6 >> Ebuilds that used this approach were easily fixed by moving the has_version
7 >> calls to pkg_preinst and storing the results in environment variables.
8 >
9 > Which breaks with any portage old enough to not properly support storing
10 > environment variables between phases (<2.1.4.4?).
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12 No, it works fine with older versions of portage. The environment
13 handling improvements in >=portage-2.1.4 make it possible to load
14 environment.bz2 but this feature is not required for environment
15 persistence between pkg_preinst and pkg_postinst.
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17 - --
18 Thanks,
19 Zac
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