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From: "Todd Wright" <wylie@geekasylum.org>
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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:23:26 +1100
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Subject: FW: [gentoo-dev] Portage Integrity (Was: gcc ebuild's, downgrades, deletion etc)
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Spider wrote:
> But my point is: adding a ChangeLog or=20
> stating what is done difference does make a change when=20
> submitting a build for something thats already in the tree.
The ebuild I mentioned in the original post to this thread did state =
what had changed. In this case it was primarily the software version and =
some minor changes to cater for changes in the way it compiled. I can =
understand your frustration at users submitting an ebuild with no =
indication of what changed, however that was not what this thread was =
intended to discuss.
My point, particularly related to this ebuild (though it applies equally =
to any software) is, who is the developer to appoint himself an expert =
on Hercules (a S/390 mainframe emulator) and decide that he can simply =
copy an old ebuild (exactly what spider has complained about users =
doing), when a complete and up to date ebuild was supplied (incl ppc, =
sparc alpha support etc) in the first place.
Unless the developer is familiar with Hercules (or other software =
product) he should leave it to those of us close to the development of =
the software to create the ebuild for it... unless he wants to download =
a real mainfraime OS (presumably learn it), and then run it himself for =
testing. Only then would I consider him qualified to create an =
appropriate ebuild.
In other words the people who are experts on the software in question =
should be controlling how it compiles/builds not those entrusted to add =
that knowledge to portage. The Gentoo developers should only approve =
that the submitted ebuild meets the standard and does not break anything =
else, but it is the submitted ebuild that should be added.
As it stands now, Hercules 2.17 is in portage (masked) using the 2.15 =
ebuild, and the 2.17 ebuild is marked "Future" which I presume means =
that it will be added (possibly) in the future.
In the mean time, there are differences in the layout of Hercules, and =
in the coresponding ebuild steps which will remain broken until the =
"Future" arrives.
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