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 1LYAQi-0000WY-Pq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:38:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4ED3EE0598; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:38:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D058E0598 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:38:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA7B66949 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:38:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.966 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.966 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.633, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] 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 lVqwf2PD7Ggt for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:38:48 +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 D7D246456C for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:38:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LYAQT-0004Wy-Ri for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:38:41 +0000 Received: from ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.99.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:38:41 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:38:41 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Live source based ebuild proposals Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:38:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20090212214925.GA21532@dodo.hsd1.nj.comcast.net> <20090213155445.GA31550@dodo.hsd1.nj.comcast.net> <4995ABE2.4000907@gentoo.org> <20090213172725.34258824@snowcone> <4995CB0B.80209@gentoo.org> <20090213194141.24d44a37@snowcone> <4995D82C.9080107@gentoo.org> <20090213203758.5b04ca93@snowmobile> <4995F15F.5090505@gentoo.org> <20090213222233.40efa9fd@snowmobile> 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 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 61089ec1-625f-44ce-a351-fca5a275fbd0 X-Archives-Hash: 1ffd6a72316aae5f580a5981e4430d3a Ciaran McCreesh posted 20090213222233.40efa9fd@snowmobile, excerpted below, on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:22:33 +0000: >> > How do I track an upstream who has a 0.34 branch (which is equal to >> > or ahead of the most recent 0.34.x release) a 0.36 branch (which is >> > equal to or ahead of the most recent 0.36.x release) >>=20 >> In those cases is enough take the package version and add one w/out >> requiring any additional version component... >=20 > Be specific. Explain how this works when, say, 0.34.4 is current, you > have a 0.34.5_live and 0.34.5 comes out. Luca, I didn't follow this bit either. The way I read your "add one"=20 Ciaran's example went off the mark, but then my read didn't work too well= =20 either, so if you could fill in the concrete numbers you had in mind, it=20 will hopefully clarify things. (Add one /where/, to which segment of the=20 version?) Being as concrete in the examples as possible helps. It might seem to go= =20 on needlessly, but when the alternative is not being sure what you were=20 talking about and thus possibly going off on a tangent... To Ciaran's=20 credit, he's at least using concrete version numbers/strings in his=20 examples, so there's no mistaking what he had in mind. Unfortunately,=20 without this concreteness I think it's just going to be yet another=20 argument in a circle, and I think/hope everybody's agreed there have been= =20 enough of those on this subject already. --=20 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