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On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:12:30 +0300 |
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Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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> Icedtea has two release tracks. One for the 1.7 OpenJDK code base and |
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> one for the 1.6 code base. They have independent version numbering so |
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> they can have collisions. By moving the slot to the file name we |
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> could have icedtea-1.2:1.6.ebuildN and icedtea-1.2:1.7.ebuildN. This |
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> particular situation can be worked around of course but it might also |
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> be better to keep the slot in the file name any way because I often |
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> find myself needing to know the slot of an ebuild (adjutrix -k of |
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> course already does this for me quite nicely). |
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Allowing multiple slots per version would require significant VDB |
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changes. Unfortunately we're still stuck with using VDB as-is whilst |
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EAPIs 0, 1 or 2 hang around... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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