Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:03:50
Message-Id: 4853EBCA.9040704@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees by Bernd Steinhauser
1 Bernd Steinhauser wrote:
2 >> MPlayer has a psychological issue with 1.0 versioning, still 1.0.live
3 >> correctly isn't higher than 1.0
4 > No, it is not.
5
6 For mplayer it is correct. I'm MPlayer upstream as well. I do know.
7
8 > In the -scm approach this means:
9 > trunk = -scm
10 > 4.1 branch = -4.1-scm
11
12 so you'll be oblivious of changes needed inside the ebuild and you won't
13 know what you merged last time you issued an emerge =foo-scm (that by
14 itself it is a problem, since it is ambiguous)
15
16 > With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x
17 > release. That sounds awful, tbh. So:
18
19 No that enforce people update the deps or at least gives one more reason
20 to do. Keep in mind that -9999, -scm ebuild or .live templates aren't
21 for public consumption.
22
23 > trunk = .live
24
25 nope it would resolve as foo_pre1 -> meaningless.
26
27 > 4.1 branch = 4.1.1.live (before 4.1.1 has been released)
28
29 correct, you can keep tracking 4.1.1, have interim snapshot pushed in
30 portage to ~ if you are confident about them.
31
32 > 4.1 branch = 4.1.2.live (before 4.1.2 has been released)
33 > 4.1 branch = 4.1.3.live (before 4.1.3 has been released)
34
35 same reasoning.
36
37 lu
38
39 --
40
41 Luca Barbato
42 Gentoo Council Member
43 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
44 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
45
46 --
47 gentoo-dev@l.g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees "Fernando J. Pereda" <ferdy@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees Bernd Steinhauser <gentoo@×××××××××××××××××.de>