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On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:09:30PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> Please, PLEASE, next time you see strange behaviour like this, speak loudly. |
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> Most bugs are known and classified, even if only in individual portage dev's |
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> minds, but unknown bugs are terrible - especially when they effect committing |
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> to the main tree. *PLEASE* ask/notify! |
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Um. yeah, seriously, if people know of bugs, but don't report it, they need a swift kick. >:) |
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The portage devs -didn't- know the cache 'staleness' detection was broken for overlays + eclasses... so a bug |
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way back whenever people noticed it would've been *quite* useful. |
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Seriously, we would *much* rather have an extra 100 bugs of portage oddities that wind up as invalid bugs, then not know... |
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So... stepping off the stool and getting back technical stuff, a fix is available at |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~ferringb/eclass-validation-fix.patch |
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It's also InCvs. |
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Devs should use this patch... won't break anything either, so no excuse in not using it :) |
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~brian |
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