From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FE8JA-0001VZ-1k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:06:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1SH3pBN006842; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:03:51 GMT Received: from smtp.top-hosting.cz (gw.top-hosting.cz [81.0.254.91]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1SGxKPE010223 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:59:21 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.top-hosting.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B8659A73AC for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:00:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.top-hosting.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.top-hosting.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31069-08-3 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:00:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from NOTORCOMP (21.217.broadband4.iol.cz [85.71.217.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.top-hosting.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0870A40A0B for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:00:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:00:03 +0100 From: Jakub Moc X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1232307950.20060228180003@gentoo.org> To: Ciaran McCreesh Subject: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role In-Reply-To: <20060228163532.273200be@snowdrop.home> References: <20060226222217.GB17257@aerie.halcy0n.com> <1140997703.12229.166.camel@demandred.gnqs.org> <20060227003413.GE17257@aerie.halcy0n.com> <20060227170834.075e9388@snowdrop.home> <1141071970.804.19.camel@demandred.gnqs.org> <20060227203709.2a7bff47@snowdrop.home> <1159375278.20060227214923@gentoo.org> <20060227213321.7ee405ec@snowdrop.home> <394439379.20060228103817@gentoo.org> <20060228145246.67dee076@snowdrop.home> <1141139552.2741.2.camel@localhost> <7310506941.20060228162637@gentoo.org> <20060228154246.3e34d340@snowdrop.home> <1141143118.2741.18.camel@localhost> <20060228163532.273200be@snowdrop.home> 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@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="----------B42C634262978" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new 2.3.3 (20050822) at top-hosting.cz X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.006 tagged_above=-999 required=6 tests=[AWL=0.593, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.006 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 75574e78-56dc-45ec-bb54-83673902ace8 X-Archives-Hash: b381ff03032f8a6b351516e8f1797224 ------------B42C634262978 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0D=0A28.2.2006, 17:35:32, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:11:58 +0100 Patrick Lauer > wrote: > | Ok, sorry for being dumb :-) > | What exactly is the issue there? I don't see the issue in setting SLOT > | depending on ... uhm ... some variable. Looks kinda logical at first > | glance, but I'm not aware of the issues it causes. > PVR includes the revision of an ebuild. This means that if a revbump is > made on a webapp package to fix a critical flaw, users will still have > the old broken package installed too. This is especially relevant for > security issues, but also applies to other kinds of fix. Not including the revision into the SLOT can break the apps by removing the needed files from a live site... I still can't see any *QA* violation there. > Ebuilds can't override this either. Read on in the eclass and you'll > notice that it checks that SLOT hasn't been changed to something sane. Yeah, it checks for that since that's the way the eclass is designed. You can't declare a slot in a kernel ebuild either. Well, starts to be boring - so, either come with something valid from QA standpoint or stop now. --=20 jakub ------------B42C634262978 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEBIGThxfV/c66PZ4RAjsXAJ952e993vfNwMFQI66NihN13gBC7gCeLa3i YsehDQMm4jD3ut3cvjueOJE= =RkUZ -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ------------B42C634262978-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list