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The first draft of EAPI 8 has been posted to the gentoo-pms mailing |
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list for review: |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-pms/message/e3a7c931ea369e84d81ee70d2fe9802c |
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> Here is the series of EAPI 8 patches for review. They include the |
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> pre-approved items from the 2020-11-08 Council meeting, with two |
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> modifications: |
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> - "Empty working directory in pkg_* phase functions" added |
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> - "Variant of || ( ) with defined runtime behaviour" dropped, |
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> because the implementation is not ready |
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> The complete list of features is: |
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> - Less strict naming rules for files in updates directory |
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> - Bash version is 5.0 |
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> - Selective fetch/mirror restriction |
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> - IDEPEND |
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> - Empty working directory in pkg_* phase functions |
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> - Different src_prepare implementation |
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> - PROPERTIES and RESTRICT accumulated across eclasses |
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> - useq banned |
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> - hasv and hasq banned |
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> - econf adds --datarootdir |
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> - econf adds --disable-static |
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> - dosym can create relative paths |
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> - insopts no longer affects doconfd, doenvd and doheader |
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> - exeopts no longer affects doinitd |
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> - usev supports an optional second argument |
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> - unpack no longer supports .7z, .rar, .lha |
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> The rendered version of the spec can be found: |
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> PDF: https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/8-draft/pms.pdf |
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> HTML: https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/8-draft/pms.html |
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> Status of implementation in Portage and Pkgcore can be traced here: |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Future_EAPI/EAPI_8_tentative_features |
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> Thanks to Michał Górny for contributing patches for some of the more |
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> complicated features. |
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> Ulrich |
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