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On Wednesday 20 December 2006 18:28, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: |
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> Is there, or could there be, a method for giving say 7 days notice for when |
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> an ebuild is going to be removed? |
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When we are talking about old ebuilds being removed in favour of newer |
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available ebuilds this just isn't feasible imo. It would be a lot of added |
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work for no good reason. |
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If on the other hand we speak of entire packages being removed from portage |
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then policy dictates that it is masked for removal for 30 days before it is |
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actually removed. Furthermore it is now mentioned in GWN. |
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> Or, what about keeping removed ebuilds |
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> somewhere on the gentoo website or someplace for say 28 days. So if you |
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> want it, you can grab it and put it in an overlay or wherever. |
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It will stay in cvs forever. Not just 28 days. Just click the "Show ? dead |
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files" link in any folder to see files that have been removed from the tree. |
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http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/ |
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> As far as I am aware the GWN lists ebuilds to be removed but are these only |
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> for dead programs rather than specific ebuilds/versions? |
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Yes. |
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Bo Andresen |
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