Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage .51 features
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:24:59
Message-Id: 200409172027.31056.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage .51 features by Sven Vermeulen
1 On Friday 17 September 2004 17:46, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
2 > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 08:08:37PM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
3 > [... Portage 2.0.51 features and changes ...]
4 >
5 > Ok, http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/portage.html contains the following items
6 > as the new features:
7 >
8 > * Rebuilding on USE-flag changes
9 > * GPG verification
10 > * FHS compliance
11 > * Collision protection
12
13 Yep.
14
15 > * Succesfull Package Merge Verification
16
17 What's this? Nm.. I checked your page. ;)
18
19 I think this point is a bit unclear. What the feature does is runs a package's
20 make check by default or uses the ebuild's pkg_check function if defined.
21 This runs in between src_compile and src_install. So.. it's more of a feature
22 that confirms a successful compile rather than a successful merge.
23
24 > I've left out the suidctl on solar's request. I'll leave this open for
25 > discussion but I am planning on releasing this on the gentoo.org main page
26 > when Portage hits the world.
27
28 You forgot massive speedups! Dependency calculation time is about 33% that of
29 2.0.50. :)
30
31 Regards,
32 Jason Stubbs
33
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