Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Mike Pagano <mpagano@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Packagestabilization detection
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:38:47
Message-Id: eadeaeea0610270937j71e68e27tb7c1418c5fbd3c24@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Packagestabilization detection by Johannes Weiner
1 On 10/27/06, Johannes Weiner <hnazfoo@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hi there,
3 >
4 > I wrote a stabilization detector (in Python) that is able to realize
5 > when a package was installed as unstable version but became stable
6 > through a more recent ebuild.
7 >
8 > There is a project website [1] and a corresponding bug-report [2] for
9 > enhancement.
10 >
11 > I'm writing to you, because I think that just an external program
12 > checking for such stabilizations is not good enough and it would be
13 > even better to let Portage itself handle this after a sync for
14 > example. Now I'm interested in what you think about it.
15 >
16 > Regards,
17 > Johannes Weiner
18 >
19 >
20 > [1]: http://saeurebad.de/~hannes/estab.html
21 > [2]: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143880
22 >
23 >
24 >
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26
27 There's also portpeek [1] which was created for the same purpose.
28
29 [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118663
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