From: Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Our profiles/updates handling is not smart enough
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:22:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070427132224.099518c3.genone@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4630F6C2.3050407@gentoo.org>
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:00:18 +0300
Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> wrote:
> betelgeuse@pena ~ $ grep javahelp -r /usr/portage/profiles/updates/
> /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2004:move dev-java/javahelp
> dev-java/javahelp-bin
>
> Well nowadays Sun has put javahelp under GPL so now we have
> dev-java/javahelp again. The problem is that Portage now uses this old
> entry to rename the package back to javahelp-bin.
>
> betelgeuse@pena ~ $ qfile /usr/bin/jhindexer
> dev-java/javahelp-bin (/usr/bin/jhindexer)
>
> So should we make it a policy to remove old entries after some time, or
> make sure people check for old entries when adding new ones?
I used to remove old "updates" files from time to time in the past,
guess it's time to do it again.
Marius
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2007-04-26 19:00 [gentoo-dev] Our profiles/updates handling is not smart enough Petteri Räty
2007-04-27 11:22 ` Marius Mauch [this message]
2007-04-30 19:09 ` Mike Frysinger
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