Archives
Archives
| From: | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| To: | "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> | ||
| Cc: | gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>, Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system | ||
| Date: | Wed, 03 Nov 2021 21:39:55 | ||
| Message-Id: | umtmk536q@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system by "Andreas K. Huettel" |
||
| 1 | >>>>> On Wed, 03 Nov 2021, Andreas K Huettel wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > The mistake was to allow the use of EAPI=8 too early. In the future, |
| 4 | > we should have a new EAPI supported by portage for at least some |
| 5 | > months before the EAPI is even used in the main tree. Not even |
| 6 | > speaking about stable here. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | I tend to disagree. Adding an ebuild with a new EAPI cannot break |
| 9 | anything, because it will simply be invisible to old package managers. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | There won't be a problem unless you _remove_ ebuilds that are part of |
| 12 | the upgrade path. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Ulrich |
| File name | MIME type |
|---|---|
| signature.asc | application/pgp-signature |
| Subject | Author |
|---|---|
| Re: [gentoo-dev] You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system | "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> |