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On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:17:33 -0700 |
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Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > In that case adding >=bash-3 to "system" isn't sufficient. I'll |
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> > leave the detailed explanation to Brian, but the only thing you can |
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> > rely on in the ebuild environment is what the used portage version |
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> > has in it's dep strings when it was merged. |
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> > Not that it has much practical relevance given the age of bash-3 |
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> > and things depending on it (don't think anybody is still on bash-2), |
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> > but adding it to "system" wouldn't help those people. |
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> The details are not important. The main point here is being able to |
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> use bash-3 features. What do we need to get us there? |
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a) don't do anything and assume that everyone is already on bash-3. Not |
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exactly nice but pragmatic. |
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b) add a check in base/profile.bashrc. Should work, doesn't require much |
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effort but is rather nasty |
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c) maybe some EAPI trickery could work too, needs some more thinking |
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d) implement repo-versioning checks in portage. I cooked up a prototype |
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patch for that a while ago (intended to get it into 2.1 originally), |
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but kinda lost motivation as people continued to poke (valid) holes |
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into it and apparently other people didn't agree with the principle |
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behind it. Thread for that is |
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http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o/msg01273.html |
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Marius |
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