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On 30/06/14 03:14 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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> On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:40:19 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius |
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> <axs@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 30/06/14 11:36 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>>> Dnia 2014-06-30, o godz. 11:22:07 Ian Stakenvicius |
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>>> <axs@g.o> napisał(a): |
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>>>> Here's a great example of this -- dev-libs/nss-3.16-r1 is |
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>>>> p.masked by me for testing, because when I converted it to |
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>>>> multilib i needed to change the way it does some internal |
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>>>> ABI determination tests, and although I know it does work |
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>>>> fine on multilib-amd64 and (non-multilib) x86, I am not |
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>>>> confident without more testing that it will work for |
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>>>> cross-compiles or other non-multilib arches. As such, it |
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>>>> -is- in the tree, but I've masked it until I can test it |
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>>>> myself in these circumstances or find someone else that can |
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>>>> do it for me. |
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>>> |
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>>> But... if you unmask it, someone will test it and report |
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>>> whether it works :P. |
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>> But... if I unmask it, -everyone- using ~arch will install it |
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>> and it'll break all the systems that it doesn't work on, which |
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>> -could- be quite a lot at this point. :D |
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> Setting up an overlay for this and poking a stick at a few |
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> developers to try it out could help as an intermediary test, to |
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> ensure that you don't break every ~arch user in the progress. |
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> Better than "all or nothing"... |
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Or i can just use the same stick to poke them about the p.masked |
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version in the tree. :) |
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All of this just means, to me, that as long as the packages indeed are |
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actively being pursued for testing, I think it's still fine to use |
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package.mask. However, if things aren't being actively tested (ie |
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they've been forgotten about) then probably whomever added the mask |
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should be pinged relentlessly about it until it's resolved one way or |
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another. At least, I would find it perfectly acceptable to being |
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pinged on any mask I've left rotting in the tree. |
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