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On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:50:24 +0200 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> in the description of several commands (e.g., "has_version" and |
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> "best_version") I find the following sentence: |
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> ,---- |
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> | Ebuilds must not run any of these commands once the current phase |
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> | function has returned. |
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> Can somebody please enlighten me what is meant by this? (The only |
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> explanation I could think of is that the ebuild should not background |
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> the command, but that seems very far-fetched. ;-) |
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Yes, that's what it means. Really I wanted to ban ebuilds from spawning |
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any process that lasts beyond the scope of the phase function, but |
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unfortunately some ebuilds do naughty things with init scripts, so |
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we had to make do with things that query package manager internals... |
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I seem to recall this being discussed on gentoo-dev along with the |
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parallelisation stuff, although I can't seem to find an archives link. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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