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On 14/09/2013 11:26, Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday 12 Sep 2013 01:28:00 Timur Aydin wrote: |
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>> On 09/12/13 01:00, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> Yes of course, it make a great deal of sense now. Basically, your local |
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>>> overlay had no idea where the parent portage tree is or how to find it |
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>>> so couldn't find the eclass directory. |
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>>> As I understand it, this information used to be hard-coded magic and |
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>>> overlays would "just know where to look". Since recently, you have to |
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>>> configure it explicitly and not use hidden super-magic. |
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>>> You would have been getting confusing messages in emerge output about a |
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>>> faulty masters setting for overlays, pity we didn't spot that up front. |
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>>> Double pity that there wasn't a clear message or news item about what |
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>>> the error meant and the impact.... |
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> What happens when you run emerge with the new portage is that this error |
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> message pops up: |
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> # emerge -uaDv world |
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> !!! Repository 'x-portage' is missing masters attribute in |
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> '/usr/local/portage/metadata/layout.conf' |
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> !!! Set 'masters = gentoo' in this file for future compatibility |
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> However, as Alan says it is a puzzle why there wasn't a news item warning |
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> users of this new configuration requirement and how things may break if it is |
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> not complied with; or why the ebuild does not create itself the |
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> '/usr/local/portage/metadata/' directory and populate layout.conf with default |
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> values - unless the user has already done so. |
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> Either way it shouldn't let the user make WAGs as to what is now necessary for |
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> a properly functioning package manager. |
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Is it just me, or has there really been an extraordinary number of |
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high-impact changes this year made WITHOUT news items? |
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I get a sense of a culture shift amongst the devs where news items are |
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considered less important than they should be. I don't have hard facts, |
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this is just my impression, but maybe the Council should do a PR |
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exercise to impress on devs that news items are really important |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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