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On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:03:22 +0100 |
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Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> wrote: |
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> Why? |
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Because people (eg. you) use the undocumented variable KERNEL_BASE_URI. |
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> Just to annoy people who have successfully used kernel-2.eclass until |
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> now, and in my case for half a decade (or even more)? |
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If you use an undocumented variable, it is bound to fail at some point; |
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this comment clarifies that we are not bound to fix resulting bugs, |
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that of course does not mean we're not willing to help. |
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As shown on the bug, it's quite the opposite, I've shown for multiple |
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comments that I am willing to collaborate if you state me what the |
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problem is. If I then get no answer to that, please don't feel annoyed; |
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I may have came over as annoyed myself near the end, sorry for that. |
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Your problem wasn't clear before I found above undocumented change; |
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because as I said so on the bug, I covered the whole migration and am |
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willing to convert still missing genpatches files and put them on the |
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mirror right away. |
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A change in KERNEL_BASE_URI is something which you can not cover in |
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advance, because I do not know which changes are out there it is |
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impossible for me to contact them all; the MLs target the wrong people. |
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We're sorry this broke it for you and will use these lists from now on. |
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> If you need help with maintaining the current eclass functionality, |
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> I'd be more than happy. I don't really want to fork it myself :-). |
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You'll want to ask Mike Pagano about that, not my take; he's both the |
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lead of the kernel team and has been my mentor, he acknowledged the |
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commit we are discussing here too without prior mails. |
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Your suggested patch likely does not work with genpatches, since I don't |
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think that the infra team will want to host files for forks of |
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Gentoo; if they do, please let them tell me that, IRC or GPG signed. |
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You will either want to fork this yourself or request the genpatches |
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URI to become a documented variable such that you can host your own |
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genpatches, either way I think you will need to convert them yourself. |
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> As I said in the bug, next time you plan a migration like that, it |
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> would be nice to send an heads up on the ML beforehand. |
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Everything in the Portage tree was migrated just fine, there is also no |
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certainty I will reach all people outside of the tree by this. But as |
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said on that same bug, along a sorry, I will do so in the future... |
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Happy to help, you may see me contribute to Sabayon/systemd-love. :-) |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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E-mail address : TomWij@g.o |
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