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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 07:18:06 +0100, John Nilsson <john@×××××××.nu> wrote: |
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> On sön, 2004-11-28 at 05:44 +0000, Ed Grimm wrote: |
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> > There may be others which are more problematic. I haven't seen Gentoo |
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> > using them, but many kernels are distributed with -[a-z][a-z]\d+ |
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> > versions, which indicate which alternate maintainer managed the |
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> > additional patches beyond the standard kernel version - which is newer, |
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> > -mm5 or -bk15? The world may never know. (It's only determinate for |
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> > specific kernel versions, and frequently it's an apples and lemonade |
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> > comparison, as they don't address the same issues.) |
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> Would it be to much overhead if the ebuilds just linked to previous |
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> versions instead? Like the ineed stuff of the init scripts. This way no |
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> no version parsing at all would be needed. |
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> -John |
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the big probem with that, john is that "stale" ebuilds are removed |
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often... also from apache-1.3.27 -> apache-2.0.41 there's a pretty |
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HUGE difference in how the packages are actually |
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compiled/treated/options, etc... for another example, look at the php5 |
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vs the php4 ebuilds... see a difference? it doesn't make sense to do |
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what you are thinking because as soon as a new version comes out that |
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obsoletes the old one with new features, etc you end up having to hack |
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ALL of your ebuilds to support the new features and you're in the same |
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place you were before. Another thing you should look at, is |
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eclasses... webapp.eclass especially since it's pretty widely used. |
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eclasses do what i think you'd want to accomplish with the linking to |
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previous versions setup. Oh, and by the way, version parsing isn't |
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something that can be easily avoided. see above on why "world + dog = |
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same version" is a bad idea. |
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off list, when i wake up tomorrow, i'll email you a snippet of |
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conversation i had with johnm about eclasses last nite in |
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#gentoo-dev... it might be enlightening. |
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my .02 of a monetary unit. |
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Allen Parker |
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