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 1L6nHu-0008Hw-RT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:28:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F211E0563; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27604E0563 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (graaff.xs4all.nl [80.101.101.38]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A726644D9 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:28:39 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future From: Hans de Graaff To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1228053002.5981.12.camel@homer.ob.libexec.de> References: <49329690.7000409@gentoo.org> <1228053002.5981.12.camel@homer.ob.libexec.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-QjpiO1LXIZjPhdcOulvs" Organization: Gentoo Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:28:37 +0100 Message-Id: <1228055317.9220.7.camel@ip6-localhost> 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 2.22.3.1 X-Archives-Salt: c3648b1c-effc-4f6d-bb59-fc9d0ed69a81 X-Archives-Hash: a05cdc8b7d0b9f30ed9c41636677302d --=-QjpiO1LXIZjPhdcOulvs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 14:50 +0100, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > Jan Kundr=C3=A1t: > > Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=C3=B2 wrote: > > > I have a very quick proposal: why don't we move the packages' homepag= e > > > in metadata.xml (since it's usually unique for all the versions) > >=20 > > I believe the reason was that HOMEPAGE might change with new versions=20 > > and that metadata.xml didn't (doesn't?) support version-specific data. >=20 > In most (nearly all?) cases a HOMEPAGE change does also affect older vers= ions. > Does someone have an example where older versions stay at an old homepage > and newer versions moved to a new homepage? Which (and how many) packages= would be affected by that? I've seen this happen for at least one ruby package where the package got forked, with the old stagnant versions still on the old homepage and the new versions on the new homepage. I still favor the move to metadata.xml, even though there are probably a few more edge cases like this. Kind regards, Hans --=-QjpiO1LXIZjPhdcOulvs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkkyoxUACgkQCzgcb6sPj49DzwCgmGp/2TSaqwlqpSCHORgpoO3M IsYAn2EIZpSjG6XiyzbUSKPhrG/2HGeN =+dGV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-QjpiO1LXIZjPhdcOulvs--