[gentoo-dev] LibGL.la removal news item for =eselect-opengl-1.1.1-r2 going stable

[gentoo-dev] LibGL.la removal news item for =eselect-opengl-1.1.1-r2 going stable

[Tomáš Chvátal]

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Howdy guys,
please review the attached file and suggest updates to in.
I was asked for this thing going stable due to its being dependency of
new nvidia-drivers.

Also this thing is probably blocker for the bug on eselect-opengl i just
opened:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301271

Cheers

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Tomáš Chvátal
Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Overlays/QA/X11]
E-Mail          : scarabeus@gentoo.org
GnuPG FP        : 94A4 5CCD 85D3 DE24 FE99 F924 1C1E 9CDE 0341 4587
GnuPG ID        : 03414587

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Title: Removal of libGL.la
Author: Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus@gentoo.org>
Content-Type: text/plain
Posted: 2010-01-20
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 1.0
Display-If-Installed: <app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.1.1-r2

Eselect-opengl package now strips the libGL.la file. This file was broken and
thus we proceeded with its removal. It brings slight inconvenience on you fellow
users. After emerging the new version =app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.1.1-r2 please
emerge one more package dev-util/lafilefixer and use it for fixing all various
compilation issues by running as root:
# lafilefixer --just-fixit
Note that not-running this command will bring you compilation issues so you
should really pay attention to this message and act upon it.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] LibGL.la removal news item for =eselect-opengl-1.1.1-r2 going stable

["Paweł Hajdan, Jr."]

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On 1/17/10 12:26 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> please review the attached file and suggest updates to in.
> I was asked for this thing going stable due to its being dependency of
> new nvidia-drivers.

I wonder why the affected package (eselect-opengl) couldn't run
lafilefixer itself. It's mandatory for all users, and would save a lot
of frustration.

And I think we're doing something similar with gcc (fix_libtool_files.sh
seems to run automatically on gcc upgrade). Earlier it wasn't automatic,
and it was a bit of pain (a lot more for inexperienced users, needlessly).

Long story short: if something must be done and system can do it
automatically and perfectly, why should we require the user to do it
manually?

Additional benefit: less bugs reported (I'm sure some people are going
to miss the announcement, or read it without understanding).

Paweł Hajdan jr


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Re: [gentoo-dev] LibGL.la removal news item for =eselect-opengl-1.1.1-r2 going stable

[Ben de Groot]

2010/1/17 "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan.jr@gentoo.org>:
> I wonder why the affected package (eselect-opengl) couldn't run
> lafilefixer itself. It's mandatory for all users, and would save a lot
> of frustration.

Indeed. You can simply have this version of eselect-opengl depend on
lafilefixer and run it in pkg_postinst.

Cheers,
-- 
Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] LibGL.la removal news item for =eselect-opengl-1.1.1-r2 going stable

[Gilles Dartiguelongue]

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Le dimanche 17 janvier 2010 à 13:37 +0100, Ben de Groot a écrit :
> 2010/1/17 "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan.jr@gentoo.org>:
> > I wonder why the affected package (eselect-opengl) couldn't run
> > lafilefixer itself. It's mandatory for all users, and would save a lot
> > of frustration.
> 
> Indeed. You can simply have this version of eselect-opengl depend on
> lafilefixer and run it in pkg_postinst.
> 
> Cheers,

Please do not lafilefixer without restricting the scope of the changes
it does to libGL.la specifically. It changes md5sum of installed files
(which then does not match what is recorded by portage at install), it
will also potentially hide bugs from packages dropping la files without
a word (and this is bad pratice/communication too which should get
reported).

-- 
Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>
Gentoo

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Re: [gentoo-dev] LibGL.la removal news item for =eselect-opengl-1.1.1-r2 going stable

[Petteri Räty]

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On 01/17/2010 01:26 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> Howdy guys,
> please review the attached file and suggest updates to in.
> I was asked for this thing going stable due to its being dependency of
> new nvidia-drivers.
> 
> Also this thing is probably blocker for the bug on eselect-opengl i just
> opened:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301271
> 
> Cheers
> 
> --------
> Tomáš Chvátal
> Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Overlays/QA/X11]
> E-Mail          : scarabeus@gentoo.org
> GnuPG FP        : 94A4 5CCD 85D3 DE24 FE99 F924 1C1E 9CDE 0341 4587
> GnuPG ID        : 03414587

Instead of the gentoo-pr mailing list you are supposed to send news
items to pr@gentoo.org. I cced so that they get it as fast as possible.

Regards,
Petteri


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[gentoo-dev] Re: LibGL.la removal news item for =eselect-opengl-1.1.1-r2 going stable

[Rémi Cardona]

Le 17/01/2010 12:26, Tomáš Chvátal a écrit :
> Howdy guys,
> please review the attached file and suggest updates to in.
> I was asked for this thing going stable due to its being dependency of
> new nvidia-drivers.
> 
> Also this thing is probably blocker for the bug on eselect-opengl i just
> opened:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301271

I'm not a big fan of the wording but it's something we refine, the
general idea is fine though.

I'll try to come up with something soon. If not, it can still be posted
as-is, it gets the point across.

Cheers,

Rémi