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From: Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Avoiding rebuilds
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 15:14:34
Message-Id: slrnltskdt.43c.martin@lounge.imp.fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Avoiding rebuilds by "Steven J. Long"
1 Steven J. Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 >
3 > collect your thoughts into a forum post
4
5 You are right: Not everybody on this list is interested in all
6 technical details, so it is perhaps better to shift this discussion
7 to the forums. I have opened the topic
8
9 https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7593700.html#7593700
10
11 with a summary of the various suggestions (and a very rough sketch
12 of their advantages/disadvantages).
13
14 > Sounds like something that repoman could check, once a GLEP and impl
15 > are in place.
16
17 The problem I meant is that repoman is no able to check it:
18 It can be completely reasonable that the value of that metadata
19 variable is unchanged, that is, repoman should not even spit a
20 warning in this case.
21 Unless one "adds" an artificial mechanism (like encoding the revision
22 into the variable name or variable content) which *forces* the
23 maintainer to change/check that variable.
24 But any such mechanism I can think of is inconvenient and
25 possibly confusing.