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On Thursday 21 October 2004 21:19, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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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 |
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> specific versions of packages. The problem then would be figuring out |
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> which packages are binary compatible and *not* locking those. |
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Unfortunately the requirements for RDEPEND in a binary package are more in |
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the like of depend on library L with useflags A, B and C, and linked |
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against the libraries with sonames X, Y and Z. And even for those sonames |
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you would want a minimal version. In short dll hell revisited. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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