From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EClEY-0008JA-5M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:44:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j86Ldwn9014002; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 21:39:58 GMT Received: from egr.msu.edu (jeeves.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j86LcEA4027045 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 21:38:15 GMT Received: from [35.9.44.33] (caffeine [35.9.44.33]) (authenticated bits=0) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j86LfZZi004900 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 17:41:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <431E0D0F.2090802@egr.msu.edu> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:41:35 -0400 From: warnera6 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep References: <20050904143711.GD23576@dst.grantgoodyear.org> <1125863332.11366.89.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <20050904210535.24ab8a39@snowdrop.home> <1125865598.11360.122.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <20050904205307.GG23576@dst.grantgoodyear.org> <1125869984.11364.143.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <20050906152209.GA9825@gentoo.org> <1126034976.10430.3.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <431DEF83.6070701@gentoo.org> <20050906204747.60753c4e@snowdrop.home> <1126041584.30327.42.camel@lycan.lan> <20050906223119.06c9b530@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20050906223119.06c9b530@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e801ab7b-9f85-485c-bb87-a4b5e38295ae X-Archives-Hash: 11166d77cb068cd22f74767ce797d0da Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:19:43 +0200 Martin Schlemmer > wrote: > | What about !arch or something (to connect with the one reply to the > | summary thread) to really indicate unstable on that arch? Should > | cover those things that sorda work on the arch, but you rather want > | developers or experienced users that can patch bugs to look at it ... > > Those go in per-profile package.masks. It's more flexible than a > keyword. > Speaking of flexabilty, are there tools out there to perform look-ups into p.masks to figure out why things are masked? There seems to be a standard format to the file although the part at the beginning kind of throws off a simpler regex. Flexability is good sure, but I would think a developer needs to easily determine why something is pmasked ( broken, "testing", security, removal, etc... ) and keywords do that a lot faster than searching through a pmask file. If the searching is sped up via a better format and a searching tool then all the better, yes? The other thing being a keyword is right in the ebuild where pmask status is in package.mask. I am not for putting pmask status in the ebuild though, as that is not necessary, once again a tool problem :/ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list