From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FD4gj-0004as-3r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:02:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1PJ1c9E028233; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:01:38 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1PIvZWE019586 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:57:36 GMT Received: from [213.121.151.206] (helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1FD4bn-0000Ar-FV for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:57:35 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FD4bj-0003X1-ML for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:57:31 +0000 Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:57:28 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages? Message-ID: <20060225185728.110b3398@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200602241457.43155.bss03@volumehost.com> References: <200602222055.42113.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> <200602221612.33988.bss03@volumehost.com> <20060224173138.58e99827@snowdrop.home> <200602241457.43155.bss03@volumehost.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_XhQSA4FbhuMT6VmPg7CH0gU; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: efafc89a-89a8-44b5-a393-8c7b96b7b79c X-Archives-Hash: f14378468147083996a7ec23d7fb3e50 --Sig_XhQSA4FbhuMT6VmPg7CH0gU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:57:43 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: | > ~arch means a package is a candidate for going into arch after | > further testing, if said testing does not turn up new bugs. This | > means that both the ebuild *and* the package should be likely to be | > stable. |=20 | So, betas shouldn't ever be ~arch? Or is your definition of stable | broad enough to include betas? Entirely dependent on the upstream. I've had Vim beta releases in ~arch, for example, because I'm confident in upstream's ability to do beta releases without screwing up. | > -* means the package is in some way architecture or hardware | > independent (e.g. a binary only package), and so will only run on | > archs that are explicitly listed. |=20 | So, I guess glibc-2.3.6-r3.ebuild is using -* incorrectly? Probably. | > Any package setting KEYWORDS=3D"-*" and nothing else is abusing -*, | > and will flag a warning on the QA checkers. |=20 | You mean like gcc-4.1.0_pre20060219.ebuild? Yyyyup. The -* abuse is one of the many things on QA's list of "stuff we want to get fixed". However, it's considered extremely low priority on existing packages. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_XhQSA4FbhuMT6VmPg7CH0gU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEAKib96zL6DUtXhERArS2AKDdp5UWSYuk7PhGDIFV+OmnH+v8hACgrin5 zebMulPxauh3gk1YG+eeGNg= =R+LI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_XhQSA4FbhuMT6VmPg7CH0gU-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list