From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Hello
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:57:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410130957.09500.pauldv@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416C45F0.4000001@sendmail.com>
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On Tuesday 12 October 2004 23:00, ashish gawarikar wrote:
> The advantage of doing this is viz:
>
> 1. QA has to test one huge download and dont have to test different
> scenarios.
Downloading itself is hardly an issue. Believe me, we do enough support.
> 2. You exactly know what packages you are getting in this download
You can pin a dependency to a specific version. Say you have a meta-ebuild
mycompanysetup-1.0.1.ebuild and you pin it to depend on very specific
versions of other ebuilds (up to the revision number).
> 3. You have to issue one-and-only-one command for upgrade
Updating this meta-ebuild will automatically update all dependencies as
you have pinned down the versions you want. Note that ebuilds themselves
(the build descriptions) are downloaded all together by rsync, or in case
of a local overlay the way you decide to distribute it (CVS, subversion?,
rsync). The source tarballs are checksummed and veryfied before use.
Except the theoretical posibility of malice there is not much that can go
wrong here. Just put the tarballs on a webserver and it works.
Paul
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-12 18:56 [gentoo-portage-dev] Hello Ashish Gawarikar
2004-10-12 19:10 ` George Shapovalov
2004-10-12 20:02 ` Ashish Gawarikar
2004-10-12 20:37 ` George Shapovalov
2004-10-12 21:00 ` ashish gawarikar
2004-10-12 21:26 ` Nick Dimiduk
2004-10-12 21:36 ` Colin Kingsley
2004-10-13 0:46 ` George Shapovalov
2004-10-13 0:58 ` George Shapovalov
2004-10-12 23:09 ` George Prowse
2004-10-13 7:57 ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
2004-10-12 20:06 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-10-12 20:40 ` Marius Mauch
2004-10-13 9:43 ` Sven Vermeulen
2004-10-13 10:04 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-10-13 12:22 ` Marius Mauch
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2011-05-31 20:38 [gentoo-portage-dev] hello ferringb
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