From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZshe-0004xg-Mv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:02:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7249E067F; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:02:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inertia.localdomain (dsl211-165-131.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [74.211.165.131]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E14CE067F for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:02:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by inertia.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BD7578904E4; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <55402.192.168.2.159.1205434110.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> References: <430880c50803121635g294f505av259707f7e6a746bb@mail.gmail.com> <1205415290.17945.19.camel@nc.nor.wtbts.org> <47D92F32.8070703@gentoo.org> <47D930BC.3050708@gentoo.org> <52737.192.168.2.159.1205417733.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <1205426349.7261.14.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <55402.192.168.2.159.1205434110.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ccS/Amj05iCl7LNeXG6i" Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:02:53 -0700 Message-Id: <1205434973.7261.52.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 X-Archives-Salt: c3cefba1-10ea-441a-8a67-58eb21568f07 X-Archives-Hash: 605d72e68751c7894956c630d7eaf00c --=-ccS/Amj05iCl7LNeXG6i Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 14:48 -0400, Caleb Tennis wrote: > > As much as I hate to say it, your example was rather bunk, because > > openssl changed SONAME during that time. Keeping the package >=20 > You're right here. After review, the problem was the difference between = 0.9.8e and > 0.9.8g, the latter of which provided some form of newer symbol that wasn'= t in e.=20 > But the concept is the same. Correct. That would not have been caught and would be an issue, still. > > Uhh... >=3D in RDEPEND does that, already... Also, this wouldn't have > > resolved your openssl issue, at all. Your machine scenario above would > > have still failed, since the minimum version was 0.9.7 on your build > > host. >=20 > I'm not talking about meeting the minimum required by the ebuild, I'm tal= king about > the minimum that were installed at the time of the emerge. >=20 > > Well, I sincerely hope that you do not file such a bug, as it would > > royally screw over the one team in Gentoo that *does* consistently use > > our binary package support. >=20 > I don't plan on filing the bug, but if it was an optional emerge option t= o use the > actual version deps vs. the DEPEND of the ebuild, it wouldn't affect you = would it? If it were optional, it wouldn't affect us. I'd have no issue with some kind of optional support for this sort of thing. > > I would definitely like to see the support improved, but not at the > > expense of doing very stupid things like locking to specific > > versions/revisions of packages. No offense, but that screams of RPM > > hell. >=20 > I'm not trying to lock to any specific version. I'm trying to reproduce = on machine > 2 the same state of packages that package A was compiled against on machi= ne 1. And > even make it optional to do so, via an emerge flag. This is likely usually done by controlling the binrepo. At least, that's how I do it. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer --=-ccS/Amj05iCl7LNeXG6i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBH2XpdkT4lNIS36YERAoJAAJ4lbnMdYSyThJeihG6wEBwtYKQtOgCfeVVi BXEEIZS+DKJEAmr7ZNRYO0A= =xfQZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ccS/Amj05iCl7LNeXG6i-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list