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I created a bug/enhancement listing for this at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15278 |
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Sean |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Sean P. Kane |
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Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 08:50 |
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To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] Portage as a dependency |
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An example of a package is x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2 which requries a |
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version of Portage that doesn't experience BUG 13013 |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13013. If people know this it |
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would be very helpful to either makrk it as a dependency, which may |
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actually be too difficult for package mantainers to keep updated, or |
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allow Portage to have an auto-update feature that will always update |
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Portage before doing other emerges. |
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Sean |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Dylan Carlson [mailto:absinthe@×××××.com] |
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Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 19:30 |
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To: Sean P. Kane; gentoo-dev@g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage as a dependency |
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On Thursday 06 February 2003 06:17 pm, Sean P. Kane wrote: |
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> I reported a bug earlier today that turned out to be caused by a |
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> slightly older version of Portage. Shouldn't we consider having |
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> portage or the ebuilds handle this type of situation better, by either |
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> having the ebuilds have a particular version of portage as a |
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> dependency or making portage always check for a newer stable version |
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> of portage whenever it does an emerge and then upgrading to that |
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> first. |
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RDEPEND=">=sys-apps/portage-2.0.47", as an example, is one way an ebuild |
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can do it. |
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Furthermore, Portage should be backward compatible with ebuilds written |
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for |
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earlier versions. DEPEND/RDEPEND should be all that is necessary in |
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situations where an ebuild depends on a newer, masked version of Portage |
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-- if that is in fact necessary. |
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Cheers, |
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Dylan Carlson |
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