Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@l.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 17:15:12
Message-Id: 200904181315.10029.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] qfile assumes category names contain a hyphen by Ned Ludd
1 On Saturday 18 April 2009 13:08:24 Ned Ludd wrote:
2 > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 12:55 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Thursday 16 April 2009 19:05:46 Ned Ludd wrote:
4 > > > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 10:50 -0700, Ned Ludd wrote:
5 > > > > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:27 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
6 > > > > > On Tuesday 17 March 2009 12:59:58 Ned Ludd wrote:
7 > > > > > > Maybe another with -rX parsing.
8 > > > > >
9 > > > > > if you're thinking of the open bug, that's an eprefix specific
10 > > > > > extension. they turned the X in -rX into a floating point #. which
11 > > > > > isnt supported currently.
12 > > > >
13 > > > > I don't think that was it. But I can't recall well enough off the top
14 > > > > of my head the problem that somebody pointed out to me one day on irc
15 > > > > while I was probably too busy.
16 > > >
17 > > > The error was pointed out to me again today on irc by jmbsvicetto and
18 > > > hoffie, which reminded me of what I had forgot before in this thread.
19 > > >
20 > > > The problem was/is that qpkg is not handling -rX extensions properly.
21 > >
22 > > you'll have to be more specific. like i said, -rX extensions are a
23 > > prefix extension and not part of the standard tree and/or spec. i'm not
24 > > going to implement every random thing that someone feels like adding.
25 >
26 > Heh. I don't think you understand the problem yet. Not a feature
27 > request.. It's a real bug/regression. See the bug# that jmbsvicetto
28 > filed this morn about it.
29 >
30 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/266646
31
32 yes, that is the "more information" that i required. that certainly looks
33 bad. i'm guessing 0.1.29 works but 0.2 fails ?
34 -mike

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature