-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2008 17:42:25 Zac Medico wrote: >> Ebuilds that used this approach were easily fixed by moving the has_version >> calls to pkg_preinst and storing the results in environment variables. > > Which breaks with any portage old enough to not properly support storing > environment variables between phases (<2.1.4.4?).
No, it works fine with older versions of portage. The environment handling improvements in >=portage-2.1.4 make it possible to load environment.bz2 but this feature is not required for environment persistence between pkg_preinst and pkg_postinst. - -- Thanks, Zac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjJcckACgkQ/ejvha5XGaPMVACeIAik+RdrjDxky/8pqGmYwjM/ l3cAn2VS7hFO82GpCbqMEkxhUmaFHq4T =YdcC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
