Re: [gentoo-dev] Dan: about your version question

[Dan Armak]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. My most important question is still unanswered however: 
the one about versioning.
To summarize my previous post: CVS-derived packages can't be compared, 
version-wise, with 'release' versions. A CVS package installed _now_ is 
always the latest version, since it comes straight from CVS. But, a CVS 
package installed any number of days ago may or may not be new enough. So, we 
can't know whether or not dependencies are being satisfied. (Unless we put a 
timestamp on all release versions added to Portage.)

A better idea I just had: if Portage can be _really_ integrated with cvs 
management, we can fetch the _release_ version from CVS also! So, some 
packages would go into "cvs mode", and would fetch either the specified 
release version, or the latest release version, or the current version - 
depending on the user's global/specific preferences. And then we could query 
the CVS server for dates of release versions!

What do you think?

Dan