[gentoo-dev] Blockers and package moves

2011-01-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
People seem to have started using blockers with package moves recently. For example, if cat/a is being moved to cat/b, people have started putting !cat/a as a dependency in cat/b. This is bad, for two reasons. First, you shouldn't have to do that. If package moves aren't working, we've got bigger

Re: [gentoo-dev] Blockers and package moves

2011-01-16 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/16/11 2:49 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Second, when performing updates, Paludis also rewrites dependencies of installed packages to use the names. This seems to imply that portage behaves differently. Should we update PMS when we determine what's the correct behavior? signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Blockers and package moves

2011-01-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:05:22 +0100 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: On 1/16/11 2:49 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Second, when performing updates, Paludis also rewrites dependencies of installed packages to use the names. This seems to imply that portage behaves differently.

[gentoo-dev] genkernel 3.4.11 released

2011-01-16 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello! I have just released genkernel 3.4.11 to the testing tree. From a high level point of view this release brings: - Slightly faster startup - Updated versions of busybox, LVM, e2fsprogs/blkid - A few new features, e.g. GnuPG support - A bunch of bug fixes (see below) Below you can find

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2011-01-16 23h59 UTC

2011-01-16 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2011-01-16 23h59 UTC. Removals: xfce-extra/thunar-media-tags-plugin 2011-01-11 10:13:43 ssuominen xfce-extra/thunar-vcs-plugin2011-01-11 10:13:44 ssuominen

[gentoo-dev] Re: Blockers and package moves

2011-01-16 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:49:38 + Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: People seem to have started using blockers with package moves recently. For example, if cat/a is being moved to cat/b, people have started putting !cat/a as a dependency in cat/b. This is bad, for two