Hi, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de>: > On 11/23/2010 09:32 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 01:36:15 Graham Murray wrote: > >> Mike Frysinger<vap...@gentoo.org> writes: > >>> well, not quite. the way we agreed in the past was to not > >>> revbump the masked package, but once it was unmasked, we revbump > >>> it just once at that point. > >> > >> Is there somewhere which tells users when there are upgrades to > >> toolchain packages which are not revbumped once they have been > >> unmasked and in ~arch? > > > > if they arent revbumped, then the changes dont matter to you > > This isn't always the case though, due to developer mistakes. > Sometimes when doing emerge -e system, there are changes in /etc > files that affect runtime behavior rather than build behavior. And > it seems to happen quite often. This is with non-masked packages > though.
Sometimes it is not a mistake but laziness. Some minor fixes in configuration files are quite common. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>
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