Re: [gentoo-dev] New PKGDIR=$PORTDIR/packages/$CHOST

[Spider]

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On 01 Aug 2004 07:56:40 -0400
Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> wrote:


> I was instructed by portage devs to inform you/gwn/users of the
> proposed change. (give/take time to pan it out)
>
> Sweet this will indeed help you. We can for example take the case of
> x86 on x86 we support x86:glibc x86:uclibc x86:obsd. That's 3 full
> different USERLANDS all of which we can could in theory provide binary
> packages under the same ARCH but for which all have unique CHOSTS.


Whats needed is a simple upgrade path, along with time to notify our
users.  Neither is very hard to do as we can use symlinks for backwards
compability.

And the move should be simple, once portage dev's have decided on the
finalized name for the new dir (worse if its binary package rename, but
the "rename" command can do marvels there. )




//Spider


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