From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_06_12,DMARC_NONE, INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailgw2.netvision.net.il ([194.90.1.9]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15JVS4-0003vW-00 for gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2001 01:27:29 -0600 Received: from localhost (ras4-p88.rlz.netvision.net.il [62.0.85.216]) by mailgw2.netvision.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA08853 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 10:28:56 +0300 (IDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dan Armak To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dan: about your version question X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <3B48B633.ED2D28CC@home.com> In-Reply-To: <3B48B633.ED2D28CC@home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01070910234101.09315@localhost> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Jul 9 01:28:02 2001 X-Original-Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 10:23:41 +0300 X-Archives-Salt: 14160efb-91d6-497a-b30d-a6ee622abec4 X-Archives-Hash: 9383aeb79b39cb26143c072d7305f890 Hi, Thanks for the reply. My most important question is still unanswered however: the one about versioning. To summarize my previous post: CVS-derived packages can't be compared, version-wise, with 'release' versions. A CVS package installed _now_ is always the latest version, since it comes straight from CVS. But, a CVS package installed any number of days ago may or may not be new enough. So, we can't know whether or not dependencies are being satisfied. (Unless we put a timestamp on all release versions added to Portage.) A better idea I just had: if Portage can be _really_ integrated with cvs management, we can fetch the _release_ version from CVS also! So, some packages would go into "cvs mode", and would fetch either the specified release version, or the latest release version, or the current version - depending on the user's global/specific preferences. And then we could query the CVS server for dates of release versions! What do you think? Dan