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On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 20:45 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> >> a) Drop all keywords but those of mips. Leaves mips and, more |
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> >> importantly, its users with a vulnerable and unmaintained set of |
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> >> packages. |
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> > |
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> > ...and break the tree spectacularly, causing huge amounts of pain for |
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> > your fellow developers when they encounter horrible repoman output when |
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> > they try to do anything. |
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> Can somebody clarify to me why would it cause this? Maybe I just miss |
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> something. |
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He's making the assumption that this sort of thing would be done |
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improperly and would cause other developers issues. |
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I went and created a tiny script[1] to change mips KEYWORDS to ~mips in |
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the tree, and created a patch[2] against the current CVS tree. Were the |
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Council to choose this course of action, the work is mostly done. |
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[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~wolf31o2/killmips.sh |
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[2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~wolf31o2/mips_to_testing.patch |
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