Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>, jmbsvicetto <jmbsvicetto@g.o>, hoffie@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] qfile assumes category names contain a hyphen
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:55:46
Message-Id: 200904181255.44606.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] qfile assumes category names contain a hyphen by Ned Ludd
1 On Thursday 16 April 2009 19:05:46 Ned Ludd wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 10:50 -0700, Ned Ludd wrote:
3 > > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:27 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 > > > On Tuesday 17 March 2009 12:59:58 Ned Ludd wrote:
5 > > > > There is also a bug with atom parsing iirc on 32bit platforms. gradm
6 > > > > was the test case. Think we need to change from int to long.
7 > > >
8 > > > the code is documented as having 64bit limitations for any specific
9 > > > component. the last release doesnt have the updated work i did in qatom
10 > > > to handle the latest atom spec though, and that includes moving from
11 > > > 32bit to 64bit for components ...
12 > >
13 > > Sounds good.
14 > >
15 > > > > Maybe another with -rX parsing.
16 > > >
17 > > > if you're thinking of the open bug, that's an eprefix specific
18 > > > extension. they turned the X in -rX into a floating point #. which
19 > > > isnt supported currently.
20 > >
21 > > I don't think that was it. But I can't recall well enough off the top of
22 > > my head the problem that somebody pointed out to me one day on irc while
23 > > I was probably too busy.
24 >
25 > The error was pointed out to me again today on irc by jmbsvicetto and
26 > hoffie, which reminded me of what I had forgot before in this thread.
27 >
28 > The problem was/is that qpkg is not handling -rX extensions properly.
29
30 you'll have to be more specific. like i said, -rX extensions are a prefix
31 extension and not part of the standard tree and/or spec. i'm not going to
32 implement every random thing that someone feels like adding.
33 -mike

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