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On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 06:05:09 -0500 |
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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> |
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> > We already have an existing policy, which is option 1. |
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> Citation? |
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Nobody has found one since the, except for the bug planning to patch it. |
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> I've been masking live ebuilds with option 2 ever since QA filed a bug |
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> telling me to - I don't think that policy was written down either. |
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"Note that CVS ebuilds should not generally be added to the tree |
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(except under package.mask) for the following reasons: ..." |
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http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/cvs-sources/index.html#disadvantages-of-cvs-sources |
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Although the word "generally" makes it a bit vague, what are exceptions? |
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There also hasn't been found a link with consensus as far as I followed |
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the discussion; so, no idea how and why that landed up there. |
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> What is written down is: |
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> "Live" cvs.eclass ebuilds are generally only intended for the |
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> convenience of developers and should always be masked with a ~[arch] |
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> keyword. [1] |
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The last bit "masked with a ~[arch] keyword" can be misinterpreted to |
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mean two different things; one way to interpret it is 'package.mask |
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with KEYWORDS="~[arch]"', another way is '~[arch] keyword masked'. |
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> That would be none of the above - half the tree is "masked" with ~arch |
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> keywords. I'm not suggesting that this is the right way to do it - |
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> only that there certainly is nothing approaching a clear policy on the |
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Exactly, it's also quite a minor issue since we're talking about just a |
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few entries that are done in the opposite way; but I can imagine it |
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becoming more major as more people follow the suggestion, with |
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eventually someone quoting a package.mask commit and asking "why?!". |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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