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On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Dnia 2015-04-11, o godz. 16:50:53 |
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> "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o> napisał(a): |
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>> On Sat, 11 Apr 2015, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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<snip> |
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>>> Now if only anyone would remember what these were intended for? |
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>> Both "build" and "bootstrap" are reserved for stage building. The former |
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>> is used on stage1 and iirc, the latter is used by scripts/bootstrap.sh |
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>> in the portage tree called during stage2. |
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>>> Maybe we're just trying to re-invent the wheel... |
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>> No, they are needed for stage building and for that *only*, so please find |
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>> another solution so you don't end up "killing" stage building and forcing |
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>> releng to "fix" it again. |
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> It would be nice if releng would be able to namespace their private |
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> flags properly instead of cluttering the global flag namespace with |
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> stuff you aren't allowed to touch and reserving the two useful flag |
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> names here. |
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As you can see in the commit history, both bootstrap and build were |
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already part of the first use.desc file[1] committed to gentoo-x86, on Fri |
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Apr 12 05:17:16 2002 UTC. |
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So those use flags largely predate the RelEng team and I doubt at that |
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time anyone thought about "namespaces". |
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[1] - |
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https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.desc?revision=1.1&view=markup |
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> In fact, I don't even understand why the flags aren't hard-masked if |
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> you're not supposed to set them. Of course, that would require some |
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> minimal effort of setting stage building stuff to unmask the flag... |
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And all of that needed to be implemented in catalyst and no one did it. |
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It's easy to complain now ignoring the history of the tree, catalyst and |
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release building in Gentoo. |
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Regards, |
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Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto |
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Gento Developer, |
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RelEng team lead |
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