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From: Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <gentoo@veremit.xyz>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Policy change] Package masking of live ebuilds
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 23:19:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3bacaae-53f6-11d1-baa8-44bd6783dd9f@veremit.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uv9o3k6zo@kph.uni-mainz.de>


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On 18/02/20 19:52, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> The devmanual says about live ebuilds:
>
> | CVS ebuilds must be either with empty KEYWORDS or package.masked
> | (but not both). Empty KEYWORDS are strongly preferred. This applies
> | to "live" ebuilds (-9999) and to ebuilds that extract a static
> | revision but still use CVS for fetching.
>
> As of today, I count 2123 live ebuilds in the Gentoo repository with
> empty KEYWORDS and 1 (one) ebuild with non-empty KEYWORDS but
> package.masked.
>
> So, can we finally make empty KEYWORDS mandatory and drop the part
> about package.masking?
>
> Ulrich
>
> [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/cvs-sources/index.html
>     (Yes, there really should be a chapter about Git sources ...)
This sounds like an ideal opportunity for repoman/pkgcheck warnings .. no?


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-18 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-18 19:52 [gentoo-dev] [Policy change] Package masking of live ebuilds Ulrich Mueller
2020-02-18 21:49 ` William Hubbs
2020-02-18 23:19 ` Michael 'veremitz' Everitt [this message]

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