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Anthony Gorecki posted <200509120109.37756.agorecki@××××××××××.com>, |
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excerpted below, on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 01:09:34 -0700: |
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> On Sunday, September 11, 2005 20:42, Daniel Ahlberg wrote: |
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>> The page shows results from a number of tests that are run against the |
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> ebuilds. |
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> Why does this script no longer include the results in the actual message? |
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> It was helpful to have both as a reference source. |
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Well, the idea was helpful, but (as an amd64 user) I'm not entirely sure |
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the implementation was all that helpful. |
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The problem was due to the non-x86 "imlate" tracking. Unfortunately, it |
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didn't work right, with the result normally meaning the top-10 spots as |
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listed in the message, were all ~amd64 entries where ~arch (for |
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some arch, normally x86) had been added several hundred days |
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earlier (before there /was/ a Gentoo amd64 arch, AFAIK), because it had no |
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way of tracking when the ~amd64 keyword was added, and incorrectly assumed |
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that the package had been ~amd64 since the package was keyworded ~arch for |
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/one/ arch at that point. |
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As one of the newer and more active archs, just then adding ~arch for |
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the first time to many apps, this was particularly frustrating for amd64, |
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since it left the impression the amd64 arch-team were a bunch of slackers |
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(no offense to slackware folks) that left packages in ~arch for hundreds |
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of days at a time, for little reason. |
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So... if the script now ignores that factor, at least when calculating |
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the top-10, or if it has been fixed to correct the issue (a non-trivial |
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task, someone remarked at one point, because the info wasn't directly |
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available), and assuming there are no other such "spammer factors", it |
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/could/ be /very/ useful. However, personally, at least, I'd /not/ like |
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to see it return in the broken state it was in, as I can't imagine that |
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being anything but frustration, to those responsible for the ebuilds |
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wrongly listed, due to a broken script. (Not that my personal opinion |
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means a lot as "just" a user, on a dev list, but FWIW, whatever /that/ may |
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be.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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