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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposed change to base.eclass: patch || die
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:16:52
Message-Id: 200507291814.23300.danarmak@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposed change to base.eclass: patch || die by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Friday 29 July 2005 17:58, Duncan wrote:
2 > Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò posted
3 > <200507291611.47342@××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××.org>, excerpted below,
4 >
5 > on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:11:46 +0200:
6 > > On Friday 29 July 2005 16:05, Dan Armak wrote:
7 > >> Anyway, the effective change would be to die if patching fails (and
8 > >> support patchlevels != 0), so my orig question stands.
9 > >
10 > > epatch already takes care of failing, that's why I was thinking about
11 > > that
12 > >
13 > > :)
14 >
15 > More on the point... what about replacing the current base.eclass code
16 > with appropriate calls to epatch? This would mean changes/fixes to epatch
17 > would automatically propagate, while continuing to maintain compatibility
18 > by keeping the base.eclass functionality around.
19 Well as I wrote in my previous reply, I see no objection. I wanted to make
20 sure this is OK with all base.eclass users, beyond kde.eclass.
21
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposed change to base.eclass: patch || die Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>