* Re: [gentoo-dev] apache and ~arch
@ 2005-03-22 13:50 99% ` Paul de Vrieze
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From: Paul de Vrieze @ 2005-03-22 13:50 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Sunday 13 March 2005 18:24, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> Yes, I was one of the many people who emerged the new apache ebuild
> without paying sufficient attention to the mailing list post announcing
> the dramatic changes. *Shrug* It took me a day or so to get things
> fixed, but that was my own fault, and I have no complaints about the
> new config.
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> So, what should one do about a package that, in and of itself, is fully
> functional, but related packages have not yet been updated and package
> maintainers cannot be urged to move faster to fix the packages? Well,
> nagging on bugs is usually the first step, followed by nagging on -dev
> so that people know that there is a problem. If that doesn't work, the
> traditional method is to patch the related ebuilds oneself, add the
> patched ebuilds to package.mask in a nice big block along w/ the
> principal package, and start asking people to test. That way, once it
> appears that the bugs are reasonably worked out the whole block can be
> unmasked at once, minimizing pain for our users who "can't read".
> Moreover, once this step is done it is perfectly reasonable to post a
> bug and a message to -dev saying "New foo system seems to be working,
> and we plan to unmask all at once in 30 days unless any maintainers of
> these packages [provide list] explicitly tells us not to do so."
>
It's actually worse. I had a new testing version of subversion in package
mask, but it did not get unmasked with apache. Neither did I get notified
(except by the general announcement) that the new apache stuff would be
unmasked. I caught it in a couple of hours, but am wary of what happens
when the new apache is marked stable as that would introduce similar
problems.
Paul
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