From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lakermmtao08.cox.net (lakermmtao08.cox.net [68.230.240.31]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3SCCSDl014247 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:12:29 GMT Received: from nomad.datanode.net ([68.110.242.20]) by lakermmtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050428121230.JQVI18139.lakermmtao08.cox.net@nomad.datanode.net> for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:12:30 -0400 From: Michael Cummings To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How well supported is collision-protect? Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:10:49 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050428002920.GA9023@lion.gg3.net> In-Reply-To: <20050428002920.GA9023@lion.gg3.net> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504280810.49843.mcummings@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 3f1eb999-a410-4c60-bcce-aa8cf60d8f9c X-Archives-Hash: 108996594ca89ed39f2ad1918d600aed Have to pipe up on this as I get at least a half dozen bugs a week... On Wednesday 27 April 2005 08:29 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > On a note, similar to the one about /usr/X11R6, I'd like to ask about > collision-protect. > > - How well is it expected to work? > Oh, it works, believe me, it works > - Do you guys expect bug reports about packages with conflicting > targets, with possible patches, etc? Expect is a big word. Let's just say I'm a bad dev and don't follow the list of new features in every release of portage (portage folks: i love ya, you know that, doesn't mean I follow all the new feature flags and all), so my introduction to collision-protect was when a half dozen bugs were filed one rainy morning. Perl is in a collidable situation because we offer ebuilds that supercede the modules that were installed with your version of perl (on account of packages needing newer modules but not newer perl's) - we get hit when the man pages go to merge. I'm hoping to alleviate (NOTE: not resolve) some of this when we can do versioned virtuals, but until then I sympathize with the bug posters and kindly ask them to disable collision protect until the module is installed. //mcummings -- -----o()o--------------------------------------------- Michael Cummings | #gentoo-dev, #gentoo-perl Gentoo Perl Dev | on irc.freenode.net -----o()o--------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list