Re: [gentoo-dev] What are blocks used for?

2008-04-18 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, Hi Enrico, long time no see! b) Marking that two related implementations are mutually incompatible at runtime because they both provide the same binary. Classical example: MTA's: Traditionally they tend to provide an

Re: [gentoo-dev] PostgreSQL Status

2008-04-18 Thread Luca Barbato
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Tiziano Müller wrote: What do the new ebuilds offer: a) A split into dev-db/postgresql-{base,server,docs}. WRONG we aren't debian. It's bad, just because Debian does it ?! Sounds quite religions to me. I don't like religions

Re: [gentoo-dev] Linux 2.6.25 info

2008-04-18 Thread Luca Barbato
Daniel Drake wrote: 2.6.25 was released today, gentoo-sources-2.6.25 is now in portage. As usual this will break some packages in the portage tree (ones that include kernel code), the tracker for such issues is here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218127 Jakub normally does a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: PostgreSQL Status

2008-04-18 Thread Luca Barbato
Tiziano Müller wrote: Luca Barbato wrote: It gives an annoyance please reconsider. Done that. Won't change. See my answer to dberkholz's message. As long you keep a meta package, as you told in the reply I read just now, seems a good plan in the end. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council

[gentoo-dev] Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst

2008-04-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
I'm rewording the PMS sections on dependencies to avoid permitting overly lax circular dependency resolution. Which of these wordings is accurate, given that usable means has its RDEPENDs installed and usable? 1. During pkg_preinst and pkg_postinst, any package dependency that is in both DEPEND

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst

2008-04-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 05:31 Sat 19 Apr , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I'm rewording the PMS sections on dependencies to avoid permitting overly lax circular dependency resolution. Which of these wordings is accurate, given that usable means has its RDEPENDs installed and usable? 1. During pkg_preinst and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst

2008-04-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:45:13 -0700 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd go with RDEPEND only. Any other interpretation results in installing build-time-only packages along with a binpkg, which doesn't seem to make sense. That's definitely not what we want. Only a package's DEPENDs have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst

2008-04-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:27:21 -0700 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My interpretation is pkg_* counts as runtime (I can imagine a package wanting to run itself at this point), so packages in RDEPEND should be usable at that point. Which would be fine, except it makes the tree