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Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Olivier Crête wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 2006-17-04 at 13:05 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>>> Alec Warner wrote: |
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>>>> Well the semantics of the blocker is that the new driver won't work |
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>>>> with the old server; is that true? Or just the old drivers won't |
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>>>> work with the new server? |
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>>> New server requires new drivers. Old server requires old drivers. |
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>>> There is no valid combination of new and old. |
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>> Then you should probably has new drivers block old servers and new |
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>> servers block old drivers... |
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> OK, let's think about the results of this. |
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> New drivers block old servers: |
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> Rather, why wouldn't new drivers depend on a new server? This makes |
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> sense and is already what we're doing. |
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> New servers block old drivers: |
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> This will require people to uninstall all their drivers to upgrade |
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> their server. It will not automatically reinstall them in the 'emerge -u |
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> xorg-server' case, but it _should_ reinstall them in the 'emerge -u |
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> world' case _if_ they're using the xorg-x11 metabuild. |
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I'll take TGL's suggestion, New server PDEPENDS on new drivers. |
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New drivers need new server, old drivers won't work with new server, |
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doesn't touch the old driver ebuilds at all; I don't particularly see a |
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down side ;) |
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> I'm not sure whether portage does a --deep by default now, but I think |
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> that's what is necessary for correct behavior in the 'emerge -u world' |
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> case. |
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It doesn't. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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