From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3RJ6pAi022115 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:06:51 GMT Received: from adsl-67-39-48-198.dsl.milwwi.ameritech.net ([67.39.48.198] helo=exodus) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DQrsA-0007nO-Ni for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:06:58 +0000 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:07:35 -0500 From: Brian Harring To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number? Message-ID: <20050427190735.GM29554@exodus.wit.org> References: <20050427130938.GG20252@ulric.rafique.org> <1114624384.32128.232858999@webmail.messagingengine.com> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1114624384.32128.232858999@webmail.messagingengine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 00afb391-ecbe-4acf-b1f1-f6c3db07aa5d X-Archives-Hash: 6ec83c691c50966302a7ab862c8ef9e4 On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:53:04AM -0700, marduk wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:09:38 -0700, "Imran Sher Rafique" > said: > > I hope this doesn't come across as too much of a rant. > > > > Summary > > ------- > > Is it accepted practice to allow for changes in an ebuild without > > changing the > > ebuild version number? > > Unfortunately yes ;-). This also has been a problem for > packages.gentoo.org code, because I basically have to make a series of > assumptions as to when an ebuild is considered "new" or "updated". > Originally I thought I could just just look at the timestamps on the > ebuilds, Relying on mtime of an ebuild and it's eclass should suffice. Any changes that don't affect any of those timestamps portage won't handle properly from the cache perspective... ~brian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list