Re: [gentoo-user] Xine-ui masked? [Solved]

2006-02-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Mariusz Pękala schreef:
> 
> Portage overlays are our 'private' portage trees, and they are in no
> thing 'worse' than 'official' ebuilds.

You clearly haven't seen, or even imagined, some of my initial attempts
at ebuild writing, which naturally resided in my overlay tree.

:-)

Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] Xine-ui masked? [Solved]

2006-02-05 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2006-02-06 00:47:03 +0100 (Mon, Feb), Holly Bostick wrote:
> Daniel Pielmeier schreef:
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > in one portage overlay i use there are three ebuilds
> > 
> 
> > and they are all marked ~x86.
> 
> Ebuilds from overlay are always ~arch, afaik. Overlays are not
> considered "stable" for what seem to me to be obvious reasons; namely
> that only the Portage tree itself can mark ebuilds as stable, and since
> these ebuilds are not part of the "legal" Portage system, who is
> supposed to judge? and secondly,  that overlay ebuilds, which could come
> from anywhere, could never "out of the box" be considered "stable" -- as
> in working-- by the official Portage tree (which is really just another
> way of saying the first part).

I humbly disagree. ;)
As in /usr/portage also in portage overlay ebuild is
stable if you mark it stable using KEYWORDS.

Portage overlays are our 'private' portage trees, and they are in no thing
'worse' than 'official' ebuilds.
You know that old saying:
 'A Gentooman's overlay is his castle'
;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Xine-ui masked? [Solved]

2006-02-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel Pielmeier schreef:
> Thank you,
> 
> in one portage overlay i use there are three ebuilds
> 

> and they are all marked ~x86.

Ebuilds from overlay are always ~arch, afaik. Overlays are not
considered "stable" for what seem to me to be obvious reasons; namely
that only the Portage tree itself can mark ebuilds as stable, and since
these ebuilds are not part of the "legal" Portage system, who is
supposed to judge? and secondly,  that overlay ebuilds, which could come
from anywhere, could never "out of the box" be considered "stable" -- as
in working-- by the official Portage tree (which is really just another
way of saying the first part).

Anyway,

> I have removed the ~x86 media-video/xine-ui-0.99.4-r3.ebuild in the 
> overlay manually and at the moment i emerge
> media-video/xine-ui-0.99.4-r3.

as far as I know, this is the correct solution; the other point of an
overlay is that you keep an eye on it, and if an overlay ebuild does in
fact make it into the regular Portage tree, you should remove the
overlay build from the overlay and let Portage take over (since, if I
recall something that Neil said some time ago, overlay ebuilds will
always supercede Portage ebuilds if they duplicate each other,
version-wise). That's what works for me, anyway.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Xine-ui masked? [Solved]

2006-02-05 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Thank you,

in one portage overlay i use there are three ebuilds

media-video/xine-ui-0.99.4-r3
media-video/xine-ui-0.99.4-r2
media-video/xine-ui-0.99.3-r1

and they are all marked ~x86.

In the nomal portage tree i have only one ebuild

media-video/xine-ui-0.99.4-r3

and it is marked x86.

I have removed the ~x86 media-video/xine-ui-0.99.4-r3.ebuild in the
overlay manually and at the moment i emerge media-video/xine-ui-0.99.4-r3.
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