[gentoo-dev] Our profiles/updates handling is not smart enough

[gentoo-dev] Our profiles/updates handling is not smart enough

[Petteri Räty]

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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? zmedico
also had some ideas on how to possible make Portage smarter wrt this.

Regards,
Petteri


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Our profiles/updates handling is not smart enough

[Marius Mauch]

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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Re: [gentoo-dev] Our profiles/updates handling is not smart enough

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Friday 27 April 2007, Marius Mauch wrote:
> I used to remove old "updates" files from time to time in the past,
> guess it's time to do it again.

that doesnt sound like a good idea to me at all ...
-mike

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