* RE: [gentoo-dev] Portage as a dependency
@ 2003-02-07 16:49 99% Sean P. Kane
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From: Sean P. Kane @ 2003-02-07 16:49 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
An example of a package is x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2 which requries a
version of Portage that doesn't experience BUG 13013
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13013. If people know this it
would be very helpful to either makrk it as a dependency, which may
actually be too difficult for package mantainers to keep updated, or
allow Portage to have an auto-update feature that will always update
Portage before doing other emerges.
Sean
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From: Dylan Carlson [mailto:absinthe@pobox.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 19:30
To: Sean P. Kane; gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage as a dependency
On Thursday 06 February 2003 06:17 pm, Sean P. Kane wrote:
> I reported a bug earlier today that turned out to be caused by a
> slightly older version of Portage. Shouldn't we consider having
> portage or the ebuilds handle this type of situation better, by either
> having the ebuilds have a particular version of portage as a
> dependency or making portage always check for a newer stable version
> of portage whenever it does an emerge and then upgrading to that
> first.
RDEPEND=">=sys-apps/portage-2.0.47", as an example, is one way an ebuild
can do it.
Furthermore, Portage should be backward compatible with ebuilds written
for
earlier versions. DEPEND/RDEPEND should be all that is necessary in
situations where an ebuild depends on a newer, masked version of Portage
-- if that is in fact necessary.
Cheers,
Dylan Carlson
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