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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 06:14:30PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Thursday 14 October 2004 06:08 pm, Dylan Carlson wrote: |
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> > I know it's bad form to reply to your own message, but I'm doing it anyway. |
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> > Here's my quick stab on filename convention: |
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> if a covention is going to be developed it's going to involve what epatch |
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> already uses: |
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> ##_${ARCH}_foo.patch |
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> if you want to flesh out the 'foo' part, fine, but the prefix involving a # |
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> and $ARCH is already set in stone |
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Thats a very bad road to take. |
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The primary reason against it is packages that share patches. |
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Eg: |
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- php, php-cgi, mod_php all use the same hardenedPHP patch. |
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One thing that hasn't been proposed, but I feel would probably make a |
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very good suggestion, would be to increase the update frequency on the |
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master distfiles mirror that users have access to, assuming it can |
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handle the load (I assume it has the bandwidth given the proposals for |
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another patches server near it). |
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If the patch isn't found in local mirror://gentoo/ servers, they |
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eventully end up at th master distfiles box, which will have the patch. |
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