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From: "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] When the version scheme changes
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:50:38
Message-Id: 486793A5.2050109@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] When the version scheme changes by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
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4 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
5 > On Saturday 28 June 2008 17:03:13 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
6 >> PV=${PV/0./}
7 >>
8 >> to that new ebuild. This is the cleanest way to do it and doesn't require
9 >> any variable name changes or any other changes to the ebuild regardless of
10 >> what it does. Unfortunately it is also illegal per current PMS as PV is a
11 >> read-only variable. Right now I feel that the gain of having PV read-only
12 >> (catch a few bugs?) is much lower than the pain (extensive ebuild-dependend
13 >> changes when the version scheme changes). Please comment.
14 >
15 > I don't really see how making PV not read-only is any easier than using MY_PV.
16 > Did you expect changing PV to magically change P, PVR and PF too?
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18 If we can agree to have those values writable we could define a function that
19 will handle resetting all those too.
20
21 Marijn
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24 Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML
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Re: [gentoo-dev] When the version scheme changes Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>