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 1JVp4r-0004hR-CP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:22:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C62DE0137; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 14:22:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CEA0E0137 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 14:22:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id D4684208BB3 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 15:22:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEFF4208BA9 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 15:22:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.197.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.0) with ESMTPSA id 31240758 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:22:06 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's PMS? Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 15:22:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <7797aa370803020526r476fef5cne5b3e436d5194fcb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7797aa370803020526r476fef5cne5b3e436d5194fcb@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803021522.03870.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.3 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 38b3e3f9-c049-4ffd-b2a2-e53886ba15fa X-Archives-Hash: 15111db31c05008b8b7fab1c7064b2a2 On Sonntag, 2. M=C3=A4rz 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > In GMN20080218, there is a section: > > EAPI=3D1 (Where is the specification?): The general agreement was that > any new EAPIs should not be added until EAPI=3D0 is fully approved. > However, there wasn't any consensus on changing anything about EAPI=3D1. > Mark Loeser agreed to work on PMS for EAPI=3D0, and will provide an > update at the next meeting. > > I just don't know what PMS and EAPI means. in gentoo: PMS =3D Package Manager Specification. What a gentoo package manager has to be able to do, how it does certain ste= ps=20 etc pp. Portage is compatible by definition. EAPI =3D afaik ebuild api. Current ebuilds are all eapi =3D 0. If there are= =20 incompatible changes to the ebuild structure in the future, this ebuilds wi= ll=20 use eapi 1, 2, .... it is mostly a sign for the package manager telling it= =20 how to deal with the ebuild. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list