From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50F5B138A1F for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 17:31:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0BB6E08F3; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 17:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C54D5E08DD for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 17:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C2A33FF66 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 17:31:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.834 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.834 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.464, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.668, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=unavailable Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xvNNf5iTGlBY for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 17:31:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 25AF83400CF for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 17:31:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XFRWc-0006fs-TJ for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:30:50 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:30:50 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:30:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Repoman check and QA policy for slot deps/operator Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 17:30:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20140807112443.2ed19939@pomiot.lan> <20140807180318.3702fc63@pomiot.lan> 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: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.140 (Chocolate Salty Balls; GIT d447f7c /m/p/portage/src/egit-src/pan2) X-Archives-Salt: aa2a8c55-b3d2-474d-9c8b-f2c64ffd7e96 X-Archives-Hash: 6af4cdd4ddb2291c6e08937c28938148 Michał Górny posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:03:18 +0200 as excerpted: > Dnia 2014-08-07, o godz. 15:37:07 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> > napisał(a): > >> 6. dev-libs/bar -- if any version of bar is acceptable, and you >> need to rebuild bar only when changing slots (but not subslots). >> >> Can it happen? Covered if so? > > Long story short, PMS doesn't provide a way do this. I can't think of > any use case for that, and I think that is one of the reasons no syntax > for that was provided. Makes sense. Good to have confirmation of what I suspected. >> Tho you did switch from dev-libs/foo in the initial statement to >> dev-libs/bar in the list of permutations. Normally, I take that to >> imply some relationship between foo and bar, thus the need for two >> labels instead of reusing the first, but if there is such a >> relationship here I don't see it. I am certainly confused but is it >> because there such a relationship that I'm simply not seeing (that >> possibly eliminates my sixth permutation), or did you "switch horses in >> mid-stream", as the saying goes? > > dev-libs/foo has a single slot. dev-libs/bar has multiple slots. MUCH clearer now. Thanks. =:^) (Hmm... my client's warning says I'm not verbose enough, too much quoted text for my reply. /That/ doesn't happen very often! After adding this note it's the "continue anyway" button. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman