Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: sys-pam category

[Lance Albertson <ramereth@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 13:50 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote:
> Solar,
> 	I realize you meant this as a general statement of opinion and not a 
> flame-baiter, but can you elaborate on:
> 
> On Sunday 05 June 2005 11:37, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > Invalidates binary package trees. 
> 
> My (wrong?) understanding was that this is addressed when portage runs a 
> fixpackages (otherwise what's it doing to all those binary packages?). I ask 
> because its no secret that I'm working on a split up of dev-perl from the 
> 500+ packages to a better organized, reasonable scenario where packages are 
> categorized based on, well, category :) rather than on the fact that they 
> "contain some perl bits or module bits, stuff them in dev-perl". 

In my experience, fixpackages doesn't actually fix this sometimes. I've
had to phsyically delete the binary package and recreate it for the
category to be fixed. Sadly, I haven't had time to search for a bug on
it.

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Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager

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