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* Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role
  @ 2006-02-28 16:35 99%                             ` Ciaran McCreesh
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From: Ciaran McCreesh @ 2006-02-28 16:35 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:11:58 +0100 Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| Ok, sorry for being dumb :-)
| What exactly is the issue there? I don't see the issue in setting SLOT
| depending on ... uhm ... some variable. Looks kinda logical at first
| glance, but I'm not aware of the issues it causes.

PVR includes the revision of an ebuild. This means that if a revbump is
made on a webapp package to fix a critical flaw, users will still have
the old broken package installed too. This is especially relevant for
security issues, but also applies to other kinds of fix.

Ebuilds can't override this either. Read on in the eclass and you'll
notice that it checks that SLOT hasn't been changed to something sane.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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2006-02-26 22:22     [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role Mark Loeser
2006-02-26 23:48     ` Stuart Herbert
2006-02-27  0:34       ` Mark Loeser
2006-02-27  9:00         ` Stuart Herbert
2006-02-27 17:08           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-02-27 20:26             ` Stuart Herbert
2006-02-27 20:37               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-02-27 20:49                 ` Re[2]: " Jakub Moc
2006-02-27 21:33                   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-02-28  9:38                     ` Re[2]: " Jakub Moc
2006-02-28 14:52                       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-02-28 15:12                         ` Patrick Lauer
2006-02-28 15:26                           ` Re[2]: " Jakub Moc
2006-02-28 15:42                             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-02-28 16:11                               ` Patrick Lauer
2006-02-28 16:35 99%                             ` Ciaran McCreesh

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