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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:45:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120427164549.052d85be@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F9ABE2F.8050006@gentoo.org>

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:41:35 -0700
Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > In order to make it globally available, you put it in EAPI 5, and
> > make the package mangler die at pretend time if the user has patches
> > specified for a package that isn't EAPI 5.
> 
> Or, have repoman assert that src_prepare contains an epatch_user call
> if EAPI is less than 5.

Why bother? That's hideously error prone. We have a simple way that's
guaranteed to work, and that is able to inform the user if their
expectations can't be met.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-27 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-15  8:16 [gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available Ryan Hill
2012-04-15  8:35 ` Zac Medico
2012-04-15  9:03   ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2012-04-15  9:12     ` Zac Medico
2012-04-15 13:46     ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-04-23  5:04     ` Steven J Long
2012-04-23  5:56       ` Zac Medico
2012-04-28  0:28         ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-18 16:59   ` [gentoo-dev] " Jeroen Roovers
2012-04-18 17:39     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-18 17:41       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-18 18:20         ` Zac Medico
2012-04-18 18:34           ` David Leverton
2012-04-18 19:41             ` Zac Medico
2012-04-18 19:47               ` Michał Górny
2012-04-18 21:41               ` David Leverton
2012-04-26  4:44                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2012-04-26  5:03                   ` Zac Medico
2012-04-26  6:09                     ` Ryan Hill
2012-04-26  6:18                   ` Duncan
2012-04-26  6:26                     ` Zac Medico
2012-04-26  9:55                       ` Duncan
2012-04-26 15:21                         ` Zac Medico
2012-04-26 22:08                           ` Duncan
2012-04-27  1:41                             ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 14:15                               ` Duncan
2012-04-27 14:20                                 ` Michał Górny
2012-04-27 17:19                                   ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 18:01                                     ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-27 18:10                                       ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 18:42                                       ` Alec Warner
2012-04-27 18:57                                       ` Michał Górny
2012-04-27 19:26                                         ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 19:26                                       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-27 19:43                                         ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-27 19:58                                           ` Michał Górny
2012-04-27 20:12                                             ` EAPI 5 (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available) Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-28  8:40                                               ` Pacho Ramos
2012-04-28  8:52                                               ` Michał Górny
2012-04-28  9:34                                                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-28 10:09                                                   ` Francesco Riosa
2012-04-28 15:16                                                     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-27 14:27                                 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-27 15:41                                   ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 15:45                                     ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2012-04-27 15:55                                       ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 16:00                                         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-27 16:08                                           ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 16:11                                             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-27 16:19                                               ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 15:55                                 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-04-28  2:29                                   ` Duncan
2012-04-26 18:27                     ` Michał Górny
2012-04-26 18:43                       ` Zac Medico
2012-04-26 18:50                         ` Michał Górny
2012-04-26 18:55                           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-15  8:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Patrick Lauer
2012-04-15  9:18   ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2012-04-15  9:25   ` [gentoo-dev] " Sergei Trofimovich
2012-04-15 23:34     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-04-15 11:00 ` [gentoo-dev] " Andreas K. Huettel
2012-04-15 13:55   ` Michał Górny
2012-04-15 22:19     ` William Hubbs
2012-04-16  8:12       ` Michał Górny
2012-04-15 14:01 ` Michał Górny
2012-04-15 16:25 ` Mike Frysinger

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