Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch

[Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>]

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On 30/06/14 03:14 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:40:19 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius
> <axs@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 30/06/14 11:36 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> Dnia 2014-06-30, o godz. 11:22:07 Ian Stakenvicius
>>> <axs@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
>>> 
>>>> Here's a great example of this -- dev-libs/nss-3.16-r1 is 
>>>> p.masked by me for testing, because when I converted it to 
>>>> multilib i needed to change the way it does some internal
>>>> ABI determination tests, and although I know it does work
>>>> fine on multilib-amd64 and (non-multilib) x86, I am not
>>>> confident without more testing that it will work for
>>>> cross-compiles or other non-multilib arches.  As such, it
>>>> -is- in the tree, but I've masked it until I can test it
>>>> myself in these circumstances or find someone else that can
>>>> do it for me.
>>> 
>>> But... if you unmask it, someone will test it and report
>>> whether it works :P.
>>> 
> 
>> But... if I unmask it, -everyone- using ~arch will install it
>> and it'll break all the systems that it doesn't work on, which
>> -could- be quite a lot at this point.  :D
> 
> Setting up an overlay for this and poking a stick at a few
> developers to try it out could help as an intermediary test, to
> ensure that you don't break every ~arch user in the progress.
> Better than "all or nothing"...
> 
> 

Or i can just use the same stick to poke them about the p.masked
version in the tree. :)

All of this just means, to me, that as long as the packages indeed are
actively being pursued for testing, I think it's still fine to use
package.mask.  However, if things aren't being actively tested (ie
they've been forgotten about) then probably whomever added the mask
should be pinged relentlessly about it until it's resolved one way or
another.  At least, I would find it perfectly acceptable to being
pinged on any mask I've left rotting in the tree.
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