From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:23:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100401122342.3c59a865@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100401105954.GL11663@hrair>
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 03:59:54 -0700
Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:42:10PM +0200, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
> > > Basically, you want the PM to lie to the ebuild in some fashion.
> > > Since pkg_pretend is free form, it's effectively impossible to
> > > cover the scenarios it could check on- consider checking the
> > > kernel config/version, or checking the active jvm/python version.
> >
> > except the kernel will not change during the upgrade,
>
> Pardon, I wasn't clear- I was referring to kernel sources, not
> the running kernel.
But if the kernel sources symlink is changed by installing new kernel
sources, there won't be a valid .config in the new directory anyway.
Thus, pkg_pretend doesn't introduce any new breakage.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-31 9:20 [gentoo-dev] pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative Brian Harring
2010-03-31 9:48 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] " Ulrich Mueller
2010-03-31 10:46 ` Brian Harring
2010-03-31 11:04 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ulrich Mueller
2010-03-31 11:11 ` Brian Harring
2010-03-31 15:38 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2010-03-31 11:18 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] " Piotr Jaroszyński
2010-04-01 20:44 ` Róbert Čerňanský
2010-04-01 21:51 ` Zac Medico
[not found] ` <201003312316.23806.ali_bush@gentoo.org>
2010-03-31 10:57 ` Brian Harring
2010-03-31 17:49 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alex Alexander
2010-03-31 19:46 ` Brian Harring
2010-03-31 19:56 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 7:31 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 7:41 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 7:56 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 10:10 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2010-04-01 10:18 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 10:42 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2010-04-01 10:59 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 11:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2010-04-01 11:38 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 11:50 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 10:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 11:18 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 11:44 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 17:04 ` David Leverton
2010-04-01 18:39 ` Dror Levin
2010-04-01 18:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-02 22:36 ` David Leverton
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