[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/x265: x265-1.0.ebuild ChangeLog x265-1.2.ebuild x265-0.8.ebuild

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Denis Dupeyron posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:15:20 -0600 as excerpted:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
>> x265-1.2.ebuild:    KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~x86"
>> x265-1.3.ebuild:    KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
>> x265-9999.ebuild:   KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
>>
>> As in... You forgot to add ~arm to -9999.ebuild
> 
> Wait, what? Live ebuilds are keyworded now?

AFAIK, gentoo policy is that live ebuilds should always be masked so as 
never to be automatically pulled in without a deliberate unmasking of the 
live ebuild, but whether that's masked due to lack of keywords (ebuild), 
or due to hard-mask (package.mask) is I believe up to the maintainer.

For packages like this one where normal version-bumps start with the live 
ebuild (which after all should have been updated as development 
proceeded, upstream), simply copying it to the appropriate version-number 
ebuild, keeping it ~arch-keyworded on all archs where the non-live 
version is at least ~arch-keyworded, and using package.mask to force the 
masking, makes the most sense since then a version bump can literally 
amount to no more than an ebuild copy and manifest (tho obviously the 
maintainer will test it too, but ideally won't have to actually touch the 
content of the file).

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