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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed solution to arches/stable problem
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:04:22
Message-Id: 20040623020414.77c5de2c@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed solution to arches/stable problem by Carsten Lohrke
1 On 06/22/04 Carsten Lohrke wrote:
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6 > On Tuesday 22 June 2004 19:54, Aron Griffis wrote:
7 > > Btw, although this is not *as* visible, it would still be very
8 > > visible to developers via repoman, which could be modified to warn
9 > > (or even require a flag similar to --ignore-other-arches) when
10 > > jumping ahead of the maintainer's arch.
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12 > I'm not editing ebuilds via repoman. ;) And it is not as non-invasive
13 > as you think. Quite a fey keyword lines would need to be reordered to
14 > adhere the new rule - by hand. It is far easier to use +arch and let
15 > portage and all tools interpret it as arch (as it is now, maybe
16 > printing a warning), until portage, all tools and ebuilds are ready to
17 > switch to the new explicit stable feature.
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19 Except that you'll need portage modifications first that have to be
20 propagated to all users, so prepare for a 3 month waiting period before
21 you can use that syntax.
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23 Marius
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Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed solution to arches/stable problem Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>