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Brian Harring wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:53:55AM +0200, Robert Buchholz wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I've stumbled upon an inconsitency between package managers the other |
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>> day [1], which was due to both an ebuild and an eclass defining |
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>> inconsisting KEYWORDS. |
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>> bla-1.ebuild: |
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>> inherit myeclass |
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>> KEYWORDS="~arch" |
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>> myeclass.eclass: |
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>> KEYWORDS="arch" |
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>> Portage will resolve this by overwriting the variable, so the last |
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>> (~arch) wins. Paludis, on the other hand, merges the variables, so it |
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>> is KEYWORDS="~arch arch". |
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>> The PMS draft [2] defines that "IUSE, DEPEND, RDEPEND and PDEPEND" |
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>> variables be merged when defined in both eclass and ebuild (Section |
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>> 7.2), but only says "May be de?ned in an eclass" about KEYWORDS |
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>> (Section 8.2). |
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>> Anyone up to toss a coin whose bug it is, and maybe we can have a more |
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>> specific wording in the PMS? |
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> Paludis bug; if you want KEYWORDS incremental, it'll need to be in |
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>>=eapi2, too nasty of a change to shoehorn into existing (in use) |
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> eapis. |
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hmm, the program you use for posting should really have a delay function in |
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case you respond too fast (1:25 according to my news reader, gmane and the |
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assumption clocks are in sync). |
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well, if the PMS doesn't say anything about it, it's a lack of specification |
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and not a bug of a package manager. |
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Can you please give more info why this is "too nasty"? |
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Cheers, |
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Tiziano |
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