From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] slot deps in package.mask and profiles
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:28:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090126172800.GC2928@comet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090125210437.1e8b3fed@snowmobile>
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On 21:04 Sun 25 Jan , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:25:44 -0100
> "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > I talked to Zac <zmedico> earlier in #gentoo-portage about adding an
> > entry to package.mask for KDE-4.2.0 using slot deps. Thomas
> > <tanderson> and Patrick <bonsaikitten> raised the concern we might
> > need profile eapis and that PMS nailed p.mask to EAPI-0.
> > Zac confirmed that the first stable version to support slot deps in p.
> > mask was 2.1.3.16, that it was stabled in bug 197165 - 14 months ago
> > - - and that the first stages to include it were the 2008.0 stages.
> > Thus, can we finally give the ok to use slot deps in package.mask? Can
> > we also give the ok to use it everywhere in all 2008.0 and later
> > profiles/ ?
>
> The Council approved profile eapi files for use a while ago (can't
> remember when -- http://council.gentoo.org/ isn't being updated), and
Last month's meeting
> they discussed timeframes for using newer EAPIs then too. Did you see
> that discussion?
"An EAPI=0 profile always needs to exist so that users with old portage
can upgrade. Otherwise they will sync and have no valid profile
available so cannot emerge a new version of portage.
"Decision: Approved. Existing stable profiles must use EAPI=0. New or dev
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
profiles can use higher EAPIs.
"Ref: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_930f58fcebcbbcbe523c001f2c825179.xml"
I haven't finished & posted last month's summary
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/20081211-summary.txt> yet because of a
long holiday vacation and lots of work deadlines after returning. I'll
get all that stuff updated this week.
--
Thanks,
Donnie
Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-26 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-24 21:25 [gentoo-dev] slot deps in package.mask and profiles Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2009-01-24 21:33 ` Jeremy Olexa
2009-01-25 21:04 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-01-26 17:28 ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2009-01-27 0:21 ` Brian Harring
2009-01-27 1:12 ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2009-01-27 4:01 ` Jeremy Olexa
2009-01-27 4:34 ` Alec Warner
2009-01-27 5:17 ` Jeremy Olexa
2009-01-27 13:05 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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