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On 08/08/2012 05:44 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: |
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> Mike Gilbert schrieb: |
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>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>>> So do you know how many ebuilds we'd have to update to get it right? |
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>>>> At the moment, no. If someone could help me write a script to identify |
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>>>> affected packages, that would be great. |
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>>>> If said script uses the portage api to determine the dependency tree, |
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>>>> we will want to modify python.eclass first to reduce the number of |
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>>>> hits. This could be done in a local copy of the tree. |
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>>> I've created a quick little script and posted it in my devspace. Now I |
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>>> just need to mess with python.eclass. |
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>>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~floppym/python-deps.py |
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>> After modifying python.eclass, distutils.eclass, java-ant-2.eclass, |
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>> and waf-utils.eclass, there are 532 dependencies that would need to be |
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>> modified to make the || dep plan work. I have attached the list for |
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>> reference. |
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>> Does this seem like a viable option? Is anyone going to volunteer to |
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>> take it from here? |
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> If everyone agrees with this route, i suggest a post to the gentoo-dev |
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> mailing list about this planned change and a request for maintainers to |
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> change their dependencies accordingly. |
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> Additionally i suggest to add it also to some written doc, e.g. the |
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> python developer guide. |
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> After giving maintainers some time for that change, we could then open |
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> bugs or do the remaining needed conversions (when the maintainer is |
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> missing or gives his ok). |
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Any changes to package dependencies should be semantically equivalent to |
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what they are now, so we should only need the Gentoo Python team to sign |
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off on this. We would still want to make some kind of gentoo-dev |
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announcement to let people know that this is changing though. |