Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo-portage-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:02:34
Message-Id: 20120907175938.GR5282@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo-portage-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue by Zac Medico
1 On 07-09-2012 10:52:10 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 09/07/2012 10:13 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
3 > > Could you give an example where implicit ${PV} as sub-slot would
4 > > not do what you need?
5 >
6 > Can you point out a package for which SONAME/ABI/whatever changes
7 > every time ${PV} changes? Probably not. Is the relationship between
8 > ${PV} and SONAME/ABI/whatever changes the same for every package?
9 > Absolutely not. So, we have to be able to bump the sub-slot when it's
10 > appropriate for the particular package, and every package is different.
11
12 I'm sure there are such packages, but I guess you're right. It's good
13 to have this clear.
14
15
16 --
17 Fabian Groffen
18 Gentoo on a different level

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature