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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: Ebuild freeze (was: [gentoo-dev] wine 20020228)
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 12:28:07
Message-Id: 200203051849.31011.danarmak@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: Ebuild freeze (was: [gentoo-dev] wine 20020228) by Martin Schlemmer
1 On Monday 04 March 2002 18:18, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 18:10, Daniel Robbins wrote:
3 > > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 08:41, Arcady Genkin wrote:
4 > > > Per Wigren <wigren@××××.se> writes:
5 > > > > Just a note:
6 > > > > I did a:
7 > > > > # cp wine-20020122.ebuild wine-20020228.ebuild
8 > > > > and it works fine!
9 > > >
10 > > > Isn't it too bad that ebuild freeze is in effect? ;^)
11 > > >
12 > > > Having re-read the announcement, though, it's not clear to me whether
13 > > > new versions of existing portages are subject to the freeze, or only
14 > > > the newly submitted ebuilds...
15 > > >
16 > > > Clarification, anyone?
17 > >
18 > > The main purpose of the ebuild freeze is to free up developer time. If
19 > > you have some free time and want to update a few ebuilds, that's fine --
20 > > as long as you ensure the new versions work.
21 >
22 > And if you do decide to update it ... maybe move it to /usr ? :)
23 >
24 I already did that when I wrote the abovementioned 20020122 ebuild
25 recently :-) It's masked, but I'll unmask it now since people have confirmed
26 it works.
27
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29 Dan Armak
30 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team (KDE)
31 Matan, Israel