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On Thursday 21 October 2004 7:00 pm, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: |
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> These problems (as rac mentions) can somewhat be overcome by freezing |
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> the toolchain or (as rac doesn't really mention) freezing the whole |
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> tree. I know freezing the tree has been mentioned as an "enterprise" |
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> type option (having a supported tree with backported security fixes), |
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> though it would help with desktop binary compatibility as well. |
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Or simply by updating the RDEPEND in the binary pkg to lock it to specific |
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versions of packages. The problem then would be figuring out which packages |
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are binary compatible and *not* locking those. |
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