From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kl3hu-0004j4-6O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:33:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA055E03C5; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:33:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from snowy.fizzelpark.com (snowy.fizzelpark.com [85.25.140.198]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AE54E03C5 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:33:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 27460 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2008 15:33:39 -0000 Received: from 79.142.224.149 ([79.142.224.149]) by mail.fizzelpark.com ([85.25.252.58]) with ESMTP via SSL; 01 Oct 2008 15:33:39 -0000 From: Thilo Bangert Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:31:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20080826204036.GE30560@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> In-Reply-To: <20080826204036.GE30560@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2699103.oeTGe4ib7s"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200810011731.26335.bangert@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: d96cffdf-7632-4a02-bc8e-4dd8df59b36e X-Archives-Hash: 2da81710c2953defc0f105f6ae459cab --nextPart2699103.oeTGe4ib7s Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline "Robin H. Johnson" said: > Hi folks, > > I'm doing some research on our usages of the $Header$ keyword in our > main CVS repo. > > The primary use-case that has been publicly stated before was for users > to be able to identify to developers what version of a given ebuild > they were using. > > Q: How much have you utilized the primary use case? > > Q: Are there any other use-cases you have and actively use? > > For evaluating existing uses of the primary case, I took a glance at > Bugzilla. There are 624 bugs total that contain a $Header$ with an > existing Gentoo path. At least 143 of those are for new packages or > version bumps (they copied existing ebuilds). it appears we have decided to keep the $Header$ keyword in ebuilds for=20 now. however, what about removing it from the ChangeLog? kind regards Thilo --nextPart2699103.oeTGe4ib7s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkjjl84ACgkQxRElEoA5AncYggCeP1t4+u7KKtTZmU6qNHB8cB5h kr4AoNG9xG3zJ1IV+EFKrP/boi/nCMZW =uFi8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2699103.oeTGe4ib7s--