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On 7/8/07, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 07 July 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> > Implementation details wise, I would like to see packages have |
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> > possibly 2 functions, |
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> > 1: Info, and 2: Check. |
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> > Reason Being that you wont be able to fetch installation status info |
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> > on a package thats not installed, and if a package is failing to |
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> > install, you're more likely wanting to check the status of the things |
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> > it depends on, not the package itself. |
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> i dont really understand what you're going for here ... the point was to get |
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> extended information on things that are installed ... i dont know what you'd |
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> want/expect for trying to query packages that arent installed |
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> > Check would contain manual tests for a given package, thats either |
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> > installed or not installed ,as well as names of packages to run info |
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> > on. |
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> > |
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> > Info would be more usefull in diagnosing mis-installed packages or |
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> > packages that failed to run properly despite being compiled and |
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> > installed without a hitch ( it happens ) |
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> sounds like you're duplicating the point of src_test() but without any real |
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> way of quantifying it or making it useful to coordinate things ... please |
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> expound on what you're going for because i'm just not seeing it ... |
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> -mike |
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50% of bugs I tend to see are compile failures. |
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Compile Failures are often a result of things that the compile was dependant on. |
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Thus, finding info on a given package to understand what its problem |
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is, you should be info-querying its dependants, not the package |
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itself, no? |
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Information you want sent to bug reports are related to the software |
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that it depended on, no? ( ie: xine-libs wont compile : emerge --info |
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xine-libs should report information on ffmpeg, which has changed, |
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causing the failure ) |
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And if xine libs wasnt installed, it would be pointless to report |
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information about xine-libs installation when its not installed |
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becasue it cant be ;) |
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So instead of asking the user what version of X dependant they have, |
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emerge --info atom should report that in a standardised way, making |
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them able to provide more relevant information in the initial report |
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Kent |
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ruby -e '[1, 2, 4, 7, 0, 9, 5, 8, 3, 10, 11, 6, 12, 13].each{|x| |
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print "enNOSPicAMreil kdrtf@×××.com"[(2*x)..(2*x+1)]}' |
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