Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] scm package version suffix

["Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com>]

On Dec 11, 2007 4:47 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:36:51 +0530
> "Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The idea is that no one would want to automatically upgrade to a
> > branch (because you cannot define "upgrade" for branches), so make it
> > manual.
>
> ...and this is why branches shouldn't be treated like versions. They
> have their own set of rules and expected behaviours that are best dealt
> with by a different proposal.

I made that statement in the context of unversioned branches where you
do not know when the branch will be merged. In the case where you do
know when the branch will be merged, the versioned branch ebuild can
easily be included in the upgrade list via it's version.
So, you cannot "upgrade" to app-misc/foo-scm_bblah but you *can*
upgrade from app-misc/foo-1.2 to app-misc/foo-1.2-scm_bblahblah and
then finally upgrade to app-misc/foo-1.3 when the branch gets merged.

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~Nirbheek Chauhan
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