Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] recent changes in the way pkgsplit() and company work
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:51:55
Message-Id: 45CA3BBA.9060404@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] recent changes in the way pkgsplit() and company work by Zac Medico
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4 Zac Medico wrote:
5 > dol-sen@×××××.net wrote:
6 >>> Sorry, but I didn't have an internet connection for January to notice but when I
7 >>> upgraded to 2.1.2-r7 pkgsplit, catpkgsplit, catsplit no longer accepted ebuild
8 >>> strings with any atoms. Porthole was crashing in several places.
9 >
10 > Some of the functions are more strict than they used to be about
11 > invalid dependency data. If portage_dep._dep_check_strict = False
12 > is set then the new strict behavior will be disabled. Note that
13 > portage will now refuse to install packages with invalid dependency
14 > data. The strict behavior is only disabled when dealing with
15 > installed packages. Eventually, it should be possible to keep the
16 > strict behavior enabled at all times.
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18 For backward compatibility with api consumers, the strict behavior
19 will be disabled by default in 2.1.2-r9 (soon to be released).
20
21 Zac
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