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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: axs@g.o, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:17:49
Message-Id: 20140630211446.2ae5cd98@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch by Ian Stakenvicius
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4 On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:40:19 -0400
5 Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
6
7 > On 30/06/14 11:36 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
8 > > Dnia 2014-06-30, o godz. 11:22:07 Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
9 > > napisał(a):
10 > >
11 > >> Here's a great example of this -- dev-libs/nss-3.16-r1 is
12 > >> p.masked by me for testing, because when I converted it to
13 > >> multilib i needed to change the way it does some internal ABI
14 > >> determination tests, and although I know it does work fine on
15 > >> multilib-amd64 and (non-multilib) x86, I am not confident without
16 > >> more testing that it will work for cross-compiles or other
17 > >> non-multilib arches. As such, it -is- in the tree, but I've
18 > >> masked it until I can test it myself in these circumstances or
19 > >> find someone else that can do it for me.
20 > >
21 > > But... if you unmask it, someone will test it and report whether
22 > > it works :P.
23 > >
24 >
25 > But... if I unmask it, -everyone- using ~arch will install it and
26 > it'll break all the systems that it doesn't work on, which -could- be
27 > quite a lot at this point. :D
28
29 Setting up an overlay for this and poking a stick at a few developers to
30 try it out could help as an intermediary test, to ensure that you don't
31 break every ~arch user in the progress. Better than "all or nothing"...
32
33 - --
34 With kind regards,
35
36 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
37 Gentoo Developer
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39 E-mail address : TomWij@g.o
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Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>