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Am Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2012, 14:37:37 schrieb Michał Górny: |
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> a) adding new profiles which will require EAPI=5 and requiring all |
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> users to migrate to them after upgrading portage. Using new |
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> use.stable.mask files in those profiles. |
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OK here's one way how we could pull option a) through. After all we have some |
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sort of basic versioning present in the profiles (the 10.0 part that makes no |
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sense otherwise). |
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[Note: this does not cover prefix profiles, BSD and other oddities. Need |
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special treatment.] |
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1) Define a new set of profiles by copying the current ones, and replacing the |
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10.0 parent by a 13.0 parent. Only differences between 10.0 and 13.0: |
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* the EAPI, now 5, |
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* e.g. an additional parent profiles/base5 (for global stable mask files) |
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2) Deprecate the 10.0 profiles NOW by removing them from profiles.desc and |
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putting the new 13.0 profiles there. This has absolutely no effect on running |
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installations. |
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3) Make a news item about removal of 10.0 profiles in a year / ${TIMESCALE}. |
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4) One ${TIMESCALE} later, remove 10.0 profiles. This is the ugly part, and |
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users need to be warned and prepared properly - here everyone needs an EAPI5 |
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capable portage. |
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5) Since now all existing profiles require EAPI 5, move that requirement to |
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the profile root directory. |
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Comments? |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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