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Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:52:37 +0200 |
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> "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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>>> On Saturday 28 June 2008 17:03:13 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: |
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>>>> PV=${PV/0./} |
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>>>> to that new ebuild. This is the cleanest way to do it and doesn't |
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>>>> require any variable name changes or any other changes to the |
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>>>> ebuild regardless of what it does. Unfortunately it is also |
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>>>> illegal per current PMS as PV is a read-only variable. Right now I |
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>>>> feel that the gain of having PV read-only (catch a few bugs?) is |
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>>>> much lower than the pain (extensive ebuild-dependend changes when |
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>>>> the version scheme changes). Please comment. |
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>>> I don't really see how making PV not read-only is any easier than |
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>>> using MY_PV. Did you expect changing PV to magically change P, PVR |
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>>> and PF too? |
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>> If we can agree to have those values writable we could define a |
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>> function that will handle resetting all those too. |
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> Not going to happen. These variables are used internally by portage in |
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> various ways, and making their content inconsistent with the version in |
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> the filename is likely to cause subtle bugs and/or weird behavior. |
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> Besides, you've yet to explain the benefit of it, short of avoiding a |
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> simple replace operation in an ebuild, and the given use case isn't all |
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> that common anyway. |
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Why can't portage use its own variables and export these with an initial value |
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but not use them further? |
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Marijn |
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Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML |
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<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode |
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