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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage as a dependency
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I would hope that people rsync before installing new packages -- saves having 
to install them twice.  After the rsync, if you run emerge -up world, you'll
get a specific message in the package list about a new portage being 
available.  Isn't this and the general knowledge that Gentoo hinges on portage
enough for people to update portage before emerging other packages?

Alain


On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:49:38AM -0800, Sean P. Kane wrote:
> An example of a package is x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2 which requries a
> version of Portage that doesn't experience BUG 13013
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13013. If people know this it
> would be very helpful to either makrk it as a dependency, which may
> actually be too difficult for package mantainers to keep updated, or
> allow Portage to have an auto-update feature that will always update
> Portage before doing other emerges.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dylan Carlson [mailto:absinthe@pobox.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 19:30
> To: Sean P. Kane; gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage as a dependency
> 
> 
> On Thursday 06 February 2003 06:17 pm, Sean P. Kane wrote:
> > I reported a bug earlier today that turned out to be caused by a 
> > slightly older version of Portage. Shouldn't we consider having 
> > portage or the ebuilds handle this type of situation better, by either
> 
> > having the ebuilds have a particular version of portage as a 
> > dependency or making portage always check for a newer stable version 
> > of portage whenever it does an emerge and then upgrading to that 
> > first.
> 
> RDEPEND=">=sys-apps/portage-2.0.47", as an example, is one way an ebuild
> 
> can do it.    
> 
> Furthermore, Portage should be backward compatible with ebuilds written
> for 
> earlier versions.  DEPEND/RDEPEND should be all that is necessary in 
> situations where an ebuild depends on a newer, masked version of Portage
> 
> -- if that is in fact necessary.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dylan Carlson
> 
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