From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,RDNS_NONE autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from home2.telefragged.com (unknown [209.189.226.12]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC86BAC72B for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 11:44:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (gw2.ofw.fi [194.111.144.2]) by home2.telefragged.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with SMTP id g7HHkcr02577 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 12:46:38 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:48:46 +0300 From: Dan Naumov To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Very bad ebuild-writing practice. Message-Id: <20020817194846.4204ba76.jago@telefragged.com> In-Reply-To: <20020817163037.GA6497@jackpot.localdomain> References: <20020817190905.66977331.jago@telefragged.com> <20020817163037.GA6497@jackpot.localdomain> Organization: Home X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.1claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; ) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 1f6d4d03-04ba-4f80-afb0-65d980455833 X-Archives-Hash: 995174a6d487208a1ba4609f2c926431 On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:30:37 -0700 Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > But suppose someone did want an ebuild for the hourly CVS snapshots? > How should it be named? My personal belief is that ebuilds of hourly CVS snapshots should never leave the PORTDIR_OVERLAY of the original author. IMHO, Gentoo Portage is no place for autogenerated, untested CVS stuff. How are you going to go around non-compiling snapshots of broken trees and new compile options that appear from time to timw anyways ? Ebuilds should be writted for things that are "set in stone" and don't go around changing on an hourly basis. You really don't want to have 2 users run "emerge blah" and get different versions of the same program, even though "emerge -u rsync" was run at the same time. This would be a horrible mess (which is currently the case with QuakeForge ebuild). Sincerely, Dan Naumov aka Jago