* Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for February 26
@ 2009-02-27 20:23 99% ` Ciaran McCreesh
0 siblings, 0 replies; 1+ results
From: Ciaran McCreesh @ 2009-02-27 20:23 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2072 bytes --]
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:40:26 +0100
Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> Be specific. Explain how this works when, say, 0.34.4 is current,
> >> you have a 0.34.5_live and 0.34.5 comes out.
>
> being live working as substitute for 0.34.5_preN (_live) component
> the appearance of 0.34.5 will be higher than those. If we consider
> the .live alternative you'd have 0.34.live that is shadowed only by
> 0.35.x
So it doesn't work Right.
> That is pretty much the same you get with -scm, what happens is that
> in the case of live template you have portage installing 0.34.5_preN
> with revision informations and adding the template to the "live" set.
No, with -scm the order works correctly.
> >> How do I track an upstream who has a 0.34 branch (which is equal
> >> to or ahead of the most recent 0.34.x release), a 0.36 branch
> >> (which is equal to or ahead of the most recent 0.36.x release) and
> >> a master branch (which is ahead of any release) using the live
> >> property?
>
> the live property doesn't tell much about versioning
> so you could use 9999 as the "x" version component or .live or -scm,
> the live property just makes portage aware that the sources are live.
>
> This situation is one in those pkg-scm and pkg.live work better, but
> just for one branch.
>
> As you said you could address the problem using useflags, so you
> could by extension you can use the same way to address the single
> case in proposals not supporting the tip of a single non version
> branch as well:
>
> have the all the ebuilds in a package having IUSE=-live that if
> enabled triggers the live property and changes the src_uri to the
> live branch you desire.
So if you do that, how does the package manager know that one version
is less than another if a particular use flag is enabled, but greater
than it if it is disabled?
> Again it had been answered in the summary anyway.
I thought you had a better answer than "it doesn't work" that I was
just missing. Evidently not...
--
Ciaran McCreesh
[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 197 bytes --]
^ permalink raw reply [relevance 99%]
Results 1-1 of 1 | reverse | options above
-- pct% links below jump to the message on this page, permalinks otherwise --
2009-02-23 7:26 [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for February 26 Donnie Berkholz
2009-02-25 7:12 ` Donnie Berkholz
2009-02-26 19:19 ` Donnie Berkholz
2009-02-26 19:22 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-26 19:34 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-26 19:38 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-26 20:40 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-27 20:23 99% ` Ciaran McCreesh
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox