Gentoo Archives: gentoo-pms

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Bash features
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:05:47
Message-Id: 19272.15307.279638.864461@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-pms] Bash features by Ciaran McCreesh
1 >>>>> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3 > On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 00:42:01 +0100
4 > Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote:
5 >> as I now learnt, Bash 3.2 vanilla is not enough for some eclasses
6 >> to run. Patchlevel 48 is needed.
7
8 What eclasses are this? _p48 isn't marked as stable.
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10 >> Should we tighten the version string for Bash?
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12 I don't think there's a need for this, as the patches are only
13 bugfixes.
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15 > Didn't the Council say that if it ever happened again, there should
16 > be forced reverts rather than updating PMS retroactively?
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18 Yes, but any =bash-3.2* is still allowed:
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20 | Vote (6 yes, 1 no): Ebuilds must be completely parsable with
21 | =bash-3.2*, any use of later bash features will be reverted.
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23 See also the log [1] where the example of 3.2_p39 is explicitly
24 mentioned at one point.
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26 Ulrich
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28 [1] <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20091109.txt>

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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-pms] Bash features Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-pms] Bash features Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>