Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 0/3] INSTALL_MASK refurbishing resubmit
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 18:22:14
Message-Id: 6340368b-7a92-e616-ed48-067ce6eb7b5a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 0/3] INSTALL_MASK refurbishing resubmit by "Michał Górny"
1 On 03/18/2018 02:03 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > W dniu czw, 15.03.2018 o godzinie 22∶10 -0700, użytkownik Zac Medico
3 > napisał:
4 >> A binary package should
5 >> use the value of INSTALL_MASK that existed at build time.
6 >>
7 >
8 > Wait a minute! This doesn't make any sense. The whole point of having
9 > separate PKG_INSTALL_MASK and INSTALL_MASK is to be able to strip stuff
10 > from more complete binary packages, not to force original restrictions
11 > forever.
12
13 Okay, we should apply latest INSTALL_MASK settings when installing a
14 binary package? That seems reasonable.
15
16 I want to respect settings embedded in the binary package whenever it
17 could be useful, since my intention if for binhost clients to be able to
18 treat the binhost as a single source of truth, so that binary packages
19 can be installed without dependency on source ebuild
20 repositories/profiles, as discussed here:
21
22 https://bugs.gentoo.org/644990
23 --
24 Thanks,
25 Zac

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