From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [156.56.111.197]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1PDEFqW003109 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:14:15 GMT Received: from smtp.nuvox.net ([64.89.70.9] helo=smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D4fIM-0007mY-Vo for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:14:15 +0000 Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j1PDEoJU031976 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:14:50 -0500 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:18:35 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] -* v.s. package.mask From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20050225101327.GC19670@ols-dell.iic.hokudai.ac.jp> References: <421B2BDD.107@pnpitalia.it> <20050222171919.GB22112@curie-int.vc.shawcable.net> <421E2CA5.4030105@gentoo.org> <421EED54.40609@pnpitalia.it> <20050225101327.GC19670@ols-dell.iic.hokudai.ac.jp> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-FFi0UjxQOaOlrkqumdEW" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:18:34 -0500 Message-Id: <1109337515.30253.48.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 X-Archives-Salt: c7b5cc78-cc43-4cb5-8bba-116a4c303dca X-Archives-Hash: 57ca83116c3a82f793d7991d68ef059e --=-FFi0UjxQOaOlrkqumdEW Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 19:13 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > I hope I am not really hijacking the thread, but: >=20 > maillog: 25/02/2005-10:18:12(+0100): Francesco Riosa types > > Maybe after some time it has been in the tree keyworded "-*" (testing,=20 > > testing, testing)? >=20 > What's the policy for "-*" v.s. "package.mask"? '-*' is pretty annoying > in my opinion. Is "-*" for really, really bad ebuilds or something? Like many things in Gentoo, there is no hard and fast policy. The general rule is that you use -* when you don't want *anyone* accidentally installing the ebuild. A good example would be a newer version of glibc that could potentially do something very nasty if the user didn't follow the directions. In this case, you would p.mask it *and* use -*, to keep people who happen to have "sys-libs/glibc" in their p.unmask. This forces the person want to test to manually intervene to get the package, and ensures that people running the package *want* to run the package. You will also see -* in binary ebuilds, as it tells people that this will *only* work on the platforms in KEYWORDS, like KEYWORDS=3D"-* x86 amd64" would do. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-FFi0UjxQOaOlrkqumdEW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCHyWqkT4lNIS36YERAhl2AJ9R6L6/L9xxLLg2dZI6QVyluSy48wCdGZyi LQhfJC6myAwXSj2qD81fnKE= =aDcw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-FFi0UjxQOaOlrkqumdEW-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list