From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJh9h-0004Y2-Vq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:29:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DF3DE0460; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:29:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F16CDE0460 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:28:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE7F653F9 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:28:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.821 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.821 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.778, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ujKzN9zBuqef for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:28:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 663DD653E0 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JJh9O-0001F8-U6 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:28:42 +0000 Received: from static24-72-113-196.yorkton.accesscomm.ca ([24.72.113.196]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:28:42 +0000 Received: from dirtyepic by static24-72-113-196.yorkton.accesscomm.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:28:42 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Ryan Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Best practices for package.mask removals Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:28:34 -0600 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigCAAA2AC12044DBD6DCFD2D9C" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: static24-72-113-196.yorkton.accesscomm.ca User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20080108 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=F9A40662; url=subkeys.pgp.net Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 161e36f3-9360-4ee0-b310-fc6a27d4ff24 X-Archives-Hash: a108cc95804ca8dfe0b6b1d5decd9721 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigCAAA2AC12044DBD6DCFD2D9C Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------010104090505000807000704" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010104090505000807000704 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Remi (or rane.. or some other r- dev ;]) was asking a couple days ago ho= w to write a package.mask entry for removals so the script picks it up. Actua= lly there is no script (just me), and there's no real rules. but I thought I= 'd mention a couple things that would make life easier. In your package.mask entry, it would help to have the following info: a) reason for masking b) bug # for the removal (and yes you should have one) c) date of removal (either the date or just "in x days" is fine) d) the word "removal" :P (Eventually I'll write a dumb little util to automate filling these in bu= t for now I'm really really lazy.) Bad: # Dev Elepor (25 Jan 2008) # Broken app-misc/some-package # Dev Elepor (25 Jan 2008) # Masked for security bug #999999 app-misc/some-package Better: # Dev Elepor (25 Jan 2008) # Masked for removal app-misc/some-package Best: # Dev Elepor (25 Jan 2008) # Masked for removal in 30 days. Doesn't work # with new libfoo. Upstream dead, gtk-1, smells # funny. (bug #987654) app-misc/some-package This just saves me scouring bugzilla and the mailing lists for these pack= ages=20 looking for more info. 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