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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:33:23 +0100 |
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Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> With thanks to Alastair Tse I've updated the Gentoo Policy with a more |
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> verbose explanation on the use of ~arch versus package.mask. |
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> The change will be online with the next webserver sync and is made at |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/policy.xml#doc_chap4_sect3 |
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> The sentence |
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> This is not the equivalent of "testing" or "unstable" in other |
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> distributions. |
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> has been replaced with |
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> There is a difference between using package.mask and ~arch for |
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> ebuilds. The use of ~arch denotes an ebuild requires testing. |
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> The use of package.mask denotes that the application or library |
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> itself is deemed unstable. For example, if gimp-1.2.0 is the |
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> stable release from Gimp developers, and a new bug fix release |
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> is available as 1.2.1, then a developer should mark the ebuild |
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> as ~arch for testing in portage because the release is deemed to |
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> be stable. In another example, if Gimp decides to release an |
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> unstable/development series marked as 1.3.0, then these ebuilds |
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> should be put in package.mask because the software itself is of |
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> development quality and is not recommended by the developers for |
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> distribution. |
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> I know it's not my habit of telling gentoo-dev when documentation is |
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> updated, but for updates on the policy I will try to do make a habit |
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> out of it. |
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YES! FINALLY! |
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WOO hooo. |
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Maybe this means that we will once again be able to get rid of the |
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<censored> that litter our systems with requests for gnome 2.5 , evo 1.5 |
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and other more or less broken packages as ~arch. |
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Thanks, much appreciated. |
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//Spider |
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