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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 55
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:22:49
Message-Id: 484E55CB.9010100@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 55 by "Tiziano Müller"
1 Tiziano Müller wrote:
2 > ... and package managers which don't do that already still fail.
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4 To put everything in perspective all this discussion is done in order to
5 workaround the issue of an old and outdated package manager that cannot
6 be upgraded once it syncs from a too new repository.
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8 The simplest way is to change the syncpoint in the new package manager
9 and leave the previous uri with a compatibility repo for the older ones.
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15 Luca Barbato
16 Gentoo Council Member
17 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
18 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 55 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 55 "Piotr Jaroszyński" <peper@g.o>