From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWShc-0005N5-Tm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:49:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F10BDE066B; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:48:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mo-p05-ob.rzone.de (mo-p05-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9BDFE066B for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:48:55 +0000 (UTC) X-RZG-AUTH: :K2kKYU+nW/MMMlTokcN5Yot1/Bj/FTl+WviP6RIJci0HRMpbh/x+X6ShOQvVOj49PSKrpk+P/lRs X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo05 Received: from localhost (p5793F3FB.dip.t-dialin.net [87.147.243.251]) by post.strato.de (mrclete mo12) (RZmta 22.6) with ESMTP id N030a2m0HA6XP9 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:48:54 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:48:49 +0100 From: Christian Faulhammer To: Gentoo Development Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: adding a modification timestamp to the installed pkgs database (vdb) Message-ID: <20100117114849.09ddb5b3@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <82dd739f1001170146u40fa2698qd6089881aabfb523@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091026015005.GA12250@hrair.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> <7c612fc61001111435s5caaf80dx4629d81447ab52e8@mail.gmail.com> <20100112101252.1d63a6a5@snowmobile> <20100112231223.GC6656@hrair> <20100117085914.4774f9fa@snowmobile> <20100117092411.GA800@eric.schwarzvogel.de> <82dd739f1001170146u40fa2698qd6089881aabfb523@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/cvpMyxyoi74j79Ht1RL7Ra6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: e6e42da6-6e60-4579-b7d1-b9e19d24dae3 X-Archives-Hash: e2b72d3179e073495957e1b5b236c6f5 --Sig_/cvpMyxyoi74j79Ht1RL7Ra6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Ciaran McCreesh : > That probably wouldn't be possible. One of the reasons we want to > ditch VDB is to allow multiple slots of the same cat/pkg-ver to be > installed in parallel (which is in turn necessary to allow some of the > more hideous dynamic slot abuses that people are after). VDB doesn't > support that, so you probably won't be able to go back once you've > started using new features. >=20 > *shrug* all of this is years off, anyway. It's at least EAPI 5 > territory. We can work all this out later if EAPI 4 ever happens. As much as you love to have the new and shiny VDB2, it is far off. Prototyping and drafting implementations would be great to have some base where we can discuss on (in a civil manner). So having this timestamp would be a good way to prepare a sane migration path. In the end we have to care for our users and EAPI was just provided to have a clear way. V-Li --=20 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project , #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode --Sig_/cvpMyxyoi74j79Ht1RL7Ra6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktS6xUACgkQNQqtfCuFneOGdACePlBRFs8A7ctV+m0BwGf73DkU 7/IAmwfqJL/qt2XikTf7WWX/kovT38is =QHjZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/cvpMyxyoi74j79Ht1RL7Ra6--