Re: [gentoo-dev] Experiences with rc5: emerge clobbering its own config, depmod & emerge screaming, BitchX symlink error

["Chad M. Huneycutt" <chad.huneycutt@acm.org>]

Mikael Hallendal wrote:

>Ben Lutgens <blutgens@sistina.com> writes:
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>>On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:34:44PM -0400, Chad M. Huneycutt wrote:
>>
>>>Daniel Robbins wrote:
>>>
>>>Actually, I have fixed gzip and gdbm.  I will fix the others by the
>>>end of this week.  And I want to reiterate that all developers please
>>>look at my previous posts about info files and make sure they check
>>>any new ebuilds.  I have seen a couple packages showing info errors
>>>lately.
>>>
>>The authors name is at the top of the ebuild. Perhaps we should send a
>>polite email outlining the error.
>>
>
>Hi!
>
>I think this too, perhaps send an email to both the AUTHOR and the
>last commiter to that package. Another possibility is to add all
>ebuilds that do this wrong under an wiki-todo so that every developer
>can look there to see if someone else has found errors in one of your
>ebuilds. I'm not sure about mine, haven't looked into it yet, so feel
>free to flame me for broken ebuilds :)
>
I believe the reason drobbins added the nag message to the end of the 
ebuild process was so that ebuild maintainers would know that their 
ebuilds had the info problem.  Thus, I don't think any e-mails are 
necessary.
Developers: do an emerge --pretend, and check the list of broken infos. 
 If one of yours is listed, then fix it.  I will do a cvs update before 
I fix a package to make sure I don't duplicate work (or just to be safe, 
you can e-mail me if you are going to fix your own).

Chad

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