From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L6mn5-0004CW-EC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:56:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15CE4E056A; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:56:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC83E056A for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.0.10] (unknown [78.176.93.25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC566440F for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <49329B9C.1020203@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:56:44 +0200 From: Serkan Kaba Organization: Gentoo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081129) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future References: <49329690.7000409@gentoo.org> <1228053002.5981.12.camel@homer.ob.libexec.de> In-Reply-To: <1228053002.5981.12.camel@homer.ob.libexec.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=88AF65A2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b0171bf5-6fae-426b-81f5-21461968b051 X-Archives-Hash: 5c3541aa4b43896fadc98a3b0a7a2234 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tobias Scherbaum yazm=C4=B1=C5=9F: > Jan Kundr=C3=A1t: >> Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=C3=B2 wrote: >>> I have a very quick proposal: why don't we move the packages' homepag= e >>> in metadata.xml (since it's usually unique for all the versions) >> I believe the reason was that HOMEPAGE might change with new versions=20 >> and that metadata.xml didn't (doesn't?) support version-specific data. >=20 > In most (nearly all?) cases a HOMEPAGE change does also affect older ve= rsions. > Does someone have an example where older versions stay at an old homepa= ge > and newer versions moved to a new homepage? Which (and how many) packag= es would be affected by that? >=20 > If this does affect a larger number of packages (i doubt so) we might a= dd something like this: > http://package.oldbarfoo.org > or we allow more than 1 homepage item to be specified of which we can > use the title attribute to describe for which versions this homepage > item applies. Anyways, all of these would only be quick hacks for a > rather short timeframe which it takes to stable a new version and remov= e > the older one. >=20 > In general I do like that proposal, especially the addition of further > links for bug trackers, forums, irc-channels, gentoo-specific > documentation and so on. >=20 > Tobias I don't know if there are others but I can give one specific example, sun-{jdk,jre-bin} where homepage differs in SLOT's 1.4 pointing to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/ , 1.5 to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ , 1.6 to http://java.sun.com/javase/6/ and 1.7 will probably have something new. - -- Sincerely, Serkan KABA Gentoo/Java -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkym5wACgkQRh6X64ivZaKyWQCbBuzASFIYg+Ua5rifXVbig0RA c+wAnRdETeKiyDESLKspQ52uNAHx+HrL =3DOPAH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----