From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F12a2-0003Yw-6r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:22:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0NEKiBp003473; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:20:44 GMT Received: from callisto.cs.kun.nl (callisto.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.75]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0NEIknb013881 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:18:46 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by callisto.cs.kun.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726A62E804D for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:19:19 +0100 (CET) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: packages without homepages Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:19:18 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <1136952512.5741.5.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net> In-Reply-To: X-Face: #Lb+'V@sGJ;ptgo5}V"W+5OCoo{LZv;bh,s,`WKLi/J)ed1_$0;6X<=?utf-8?q?700LVV/=3BLqPhiDP=5E=0A=09=27f=5Dfnv?=@%6M8\'HR1t=aFx;ePfp{ZQoBe+e)JOQ8T5*(_;mHY+cltLGq<;@$Y,=?utf-8?q?O=5C=24=0A=09Tm=23G6M?=,g![Q62J{na*S9d;R[^8pc%u\aiLqU@`kJtYl"^6pxdW 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1774884.GQoCpQ9Mev"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601231519.19118.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 5941f4a1-93ab-4a53-b91a-0ea114dac9b1 X-Archives-Hash: dbea60cc2435b1f036f2771fe14b2c89 --nextPart1774884.GQoCpQ9Mev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 11 January 2006 05:54, Duncan wrote: > Matthias Langer posted <1136952512.5741.5.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net>, > > excerpted below, on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:08:31 +0100: > > After reading the response for bug 118607, which i filed, i was > > woundering if there isn't a more appropriate default procedure for > > packages with no homepages then just leaving the invalid > > 'homepage-link' alone ... Shouldn't there be a way to tell portage > > that a certain package simply doesn't have a homepage ? Matthias > > There was a recent thread on this, probably a month or two ago.=20 > Various devs offered various suggestions, most of which they've been > using in packages they maintain. Apparently repoman complains if the > variable isn't there, so devs simply put "none" or "" or > "http://www.gentoo.org" or their dev page address as the homepage.=20 > Again, look around, you'll see these "solutions" and others, such as > leaving the stale address in place as in the case at hand. There's was > no single standard solution agreed to, as it appeared no one was > sufficiently interested to push one, figuring more important things, > like squashing real functionality bugs, was more important, with the > limited time every Gentoo dev has, being they are all volunteers. Better solution is to use something like the freshmeat directory, or if=20 possible the directory of the webserver/ftp server where the packages get=20 released. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart1774884.GQoCpQ9Mev Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBD1OXnbKx5DBjWFdsRAj59AJ9dhM1Y+GLeFvG6mH06mYuz9pQElACgw0vq tldWiXN7YbDc8zhKJ8JAE7k= =Z4+B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1774884.GQoCpQ9Mev-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list