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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] MOVE != MERGE
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:29:38
Message-Id: 200503191929.31968.danarmak@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] MOVE != MERGE by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Saturday 19 March 2005 18:37, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:28:51 +0200 Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
3 >
4 > wrote:
5 > | It's true that the file list won't match. For which reason the target
6 > | package always started out at a greater version than what was
7 > | available for any source package. So after the move, the next world
8 > | update should re-merge the correct, complete package.
9 >
10 > Uh... You also completely break packages/.
11 My only excuse is that we only did it for package.masked ebuilds (i.e. ebuilds
12 for which all versions that ever existed had always been package.masked, and
13 hadn't existed for very long anyway).
14
15 But again, what's the proper way to merge packages?
16
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18 Dan Armak
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Re: [gentoo-dev] MOVE != MERGE Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>