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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Extending -scm with upstream revision awareness
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:48:46
Message-Id: 20080615194836.05c6b4c6@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Extending -scm with upstream revision awareness by "Tiziano Müller"
1 On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:47:02 +0200
2 Tiziano Müller <dev-zero@g.o> wrote:
3 > > * When updating an scm package, do src_fetch_extra then
4 > > pkg_scm_info. At user option, if the pkg_scm_info value hasn't
5 > > changed and it's a reinstall, skip reinstalling.
6 >
7 > ... and reset the reference date "$user_option ago" is compared to to
8 > have it reconsidered in "$user_option ago" again.
9 > (or reset the date when this package got installed to the current
10 > date)
11
12 Mmm, I'd argue that going off when the package was actually installed
13 appears to be the sensible behaviour there, not going off when the last
14 attempt at installing the package was.
15
16 --
17 Ciaran McCreesh

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