* [gentoo-dev] gcc ebuild's, downgrades, deletion etc
@ 2003-03-11 8:43 99% Phil Richards
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From: Phil Richards @ 2003-03-11 8:43 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Ok, I have sys-devel/gcc-3.2.2-r4 installed.
It was at some point unmasked.
I installed it.
My system is now trying to downgrade me to 3.2.2-r1 even though
I use --upgrade-only, and I'm guessing that the reason why is that
not only is 3.2.2-r3 onwards masked, but 3.2.2-r4.ebuild has been
deleted. And, in fact, all reference to it in ChangeLog has gone.
*Please* *please* *please* don't do this.
If there is a problem with gcc-3.2.2-r4 by all means mask it;
preferably put some comment in the package.mask file *why* you are
masking it ("gcc with optimizations" doesn't tell me why it was
unmasked and then masked).
Then I can decide whether or not I should downgrade.
As it is I have no practical choice, nor any information on which to
make that choice.
As far as I can tell it is the deletion of the ebuild that forces
the downgrade - I am also concerned that a version that was visible
to ~x86 users has now been wiped from the world as if it never existed;
this leaves the possibility of a new, and different -r4 being released,
with no tracability of versions.
If nothing else, a comment in the ChangeLog explaining what was going
on would be good - that way you could have zapped the ebuild and people
would have had some idea what was going on.
And then I wouldn't have whinged, and the world would be a happier
place. Even if only slightly.
phil
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