From: Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:03:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071106210317.da2c9676.genone@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071106161512.GA21625@aerie.halcy0n.com>
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:15:12 -0500
Mark Loeser <mark@halcy0n.com> wrote:
> Just to get a wider audience involved in this...this just seems wrong
> to do. There is a QA bug open about it as well:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198248
>
> What are other people's feelings on using package moves to forcibly
> migrate people like this? It also sounds like this wasn't announced
> at all and the packages just left the tree.
A package move via "update" file is simply an extension of a mv
command. If you also had to edit the ebuild a package move is generally
not the right thing to do. Remember that a package move applies to all
versions of a package, and upstream name changes are generally tied to
specific versions.
Marius
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2007-11-06 16:15 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007 Mark Loeser
2007-11-06 16:25 ` Doug Klima
2007-11-06 19:18 ` Petteri Räty
2007-11-06 20:03 ` Marius Mauch [this message]
2007-11-06 21:23 ` [gentoo-dev] EAPI feature suggestion: OBSOLETES (was: gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007) Jim Ramsay
2007-11-07 14:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-11-07 18:37 ` Santiago M. Mola
2007-11-08 4:50 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jeroen Roovers
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