From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A199813877A for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:12:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4F8BE0A80; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:11:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49BDE0A61 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:11:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [62.3.120.142] (helo=NeddySeagoon_Static) by smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X1irW-0001sF-18 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:11:42 +0000 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:11:19 +0100 From: Roy Bamford Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <53B184E3.5040902@gentoo.org> (from axs@gentoo.org on Mon Jun 30 16:40:19 2014) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.14 Message-Id: <1404162701.1680.1@NeddySeagoon_Static> 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-PRxzuncq6A9vBhZtaEeh" X-Originating-smarthost01b-IP: [62.3.120.142] X-Archives-Salt: 1747d30e-da20-4a04-9594-e1643b22efd6 X-Archives-Hash: f79af1b60dcd07261e5944361b310c90 --=-PRxzuncq6A9vBhZtaEeh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2014.06.30 16:40, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 30/06/14 11:36 AM, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: [snip] > > > > But... if you unmask it, someone will test it and report whether > > it works :P. > > >=20 > But... if I unmask it, -everyone- using ~arch will install it and > it'll break all the systems that it doesn't work on, which -could- be > quite a lot at this point. :D >=20 >=20 >=20 Yep. The good old days ... X11 going modular ... expat-2 and a few=20 others that I've forgotten. There was no news then so if you missed an email to the list you got to=20 pick up the pieces. Those examples may well be me missing emails. I've run ~arch since mid 2002 and until the last few years always had a=20 few builds fail or things build then operate so badly they needed to be=20 p.masked locally. That's what buildpkg is for ... so that after you=20 spend 10 hours building *office and find out its a dud, you can back it=20 out in a few minutes. --=20 Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees = --=-PRxzuncq6A9vBhZtaEeh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJTsdKNAAoJEFZf0zWq3OcJ85oQALNC5G2sjyZ6iYrnuSwZQdr7 /FQI9nZRN0YFprclkVLUqSaojrYtEKvshRmrJIopEdMbbEy4gT8bPBIRdSgsrd2H kFTTpTGLXqbmhYzOzdT7yf1VXKO3D+6ROG1V5ly6/b2gzH0J3Dybw3J4DzosgiW8 YS/XYCFdPDp7jXZxY7XoN6I+IiBWcL6knVtfyY6fWb39g7DxB025W8jmw+4ohDMz CaXuTdCQ6LUp0MJAyfI50RaRJFWQfCGeE9ifq1yGiFcc8OP3wcNKL48MK0QSJO6/ IsE6WLI/lLE4e6KF917LIzFIbXaj3LUpfbNTgziQDkiSlpfbxdyNWu7mTLz2CiWj mAQdEvLijwFpHSYOrcc3ZHe3hmxax9pbBzh0moiWWB9jcM4OYa1UMh/78bdacGNB PLdt9WWWLOkKYj4i8IwdzII1K6L8T/zrDv0f8eIQBPXdPdc/+Z6+qAOvp82XqUEf FkRV9klPoZ6lPQQ2SV1zGjTjyCZOpbWgYqGiX+rdD25GRuFEmmoRyXiH/iQPZVIx ViiYRfqFhc8LnrlPxScWlzcyVxYBmJEdpJJdpK9Hvucv/4TlSR7ON62v1vuhUVwn jzF3siK5b9dwkizK2AoRp37g38IwKrQ8gegNJhGdvRVt277T+XRMf8uFQU1WekPx f9oVfy73fmS9foA2oz3m =urc/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-PRxzuncq6A9vBhZtaEeh--