[gentoo-user] Re: xfce-base/xfce ebuild is broken?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-06-22, Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com> wrote:

>>  1. How does one know when not to do a sync/update so that one
>>     can avoid these problems?  Is there a database broken or
>>     not-broken status?
>
> 1. You can not know before but you can monitor the irc channel
>    #gentoo-commits on freenode or the gentoo-commits mailing
>    list. So you know which changes are done to the portage
>    tree. Be careful this will cause heavy traffic to your
>    inbox.

>>  2. Is there no way to "commit" a set of database changes so
>>     that the database doesn't have to be left in a broken
>>     state during moves?  (Maybe I'm just spoiled using
>>     Subversion...)
>
> 2. I don't know if this is doable in one go.

It's a rather fundamental feature of databases and revision
control systems, so I guess I'd be a bit surprised that it
can't be done that way.

>    The gentoo package maintainer adds the ebuild to its new
>    place and removes it from its old.  When this is done he
>    changes the other ebuilds pointing to the old locations. He
>    also makes an entry in $PORTDIR/profiles/updates so the
>    /var/db/pkg is updated accordingly for already installed
>    packages.

Wouldn't doing it the order below prevent problems?

   1) Add ebuild in new location.
   2) Change existing ebuilds to point to new location.
   3) Delete ebuild from old location.   

If even that can't be done, why not have a "working" copy of
the database where such changes are made and then push
non-broken snapshots of database out to the public servers?

-- 
Grant

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