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if it made it in unmasked but with a cvs date tag, would that |
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make it more agreeable ? |
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-mike |
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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: "Blake Watters" <sbw@×××××××××××.edu> |
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To: "Dan Naumov" <jago@×××××××××××.com> |
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Cc: <gentoo-dev@g.o> |
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Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 14:40 |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Very bad ebuild-writing practice. |
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> Wouldn't it seem most reasonable for the ebuild author to create |
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> snapshots, test them, and have those snapshots merged into Portage? Then |
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> the package can be repackaged at a later date, tested again and released. |
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> This also allows you to use the date as the version number, bypassing any |
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> problems with the naming conventions. |
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> |
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> I agree that hourly build releases should not make it into the portage |
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> tree unmasked. Perhaps masking such packages or creating an experimental |
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> organizational unit under portage for such packages to live would be |
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> advantageous. |
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> |
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> Blake |
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> |
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> |
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> On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Dan Naumov wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:30:37 -0700 |
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> > Jeremiah Mahler <jmahler@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > > But suppose someone did want an ebuild for the hourly CVS snapshots? |
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> > > How should it be named? |
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> > |
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> > My personal belief is that ebuilds of hourly CVS snapshots should never |
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leave the PORTDIR_OVERLAY of the original author. IMHO, Gentoo Portage is no |
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place for autogenerated, untested CVS stuff. How are you going to go around |
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non-compiling snapshots of broken trees and new compile options that appear |
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from time to timw anyways ? |
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> > |
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> > Ebuilds should be writted for things that are "set in stone" and don't |
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go around changing on an hourly basis. You really don't want to have 2 users |
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run "emerge blah" and get different versions of the same program, even |
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though "emerge -u rsync" was run at the same time. This would be a horrible |
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mess (which is currently the case with QuakeForge ebuild). |
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> > |
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> > Sincerely, |
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> > Dan Naumov aka Jago |
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