Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12

2013-06-04 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 03-06-2013 a las 17:24 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: [...] Yeah. The news item now advises the user that it's a good practice to run revdep-rebuild anyway, just to be safe. I would also suggest people to report bugs when they find cases not catched by preserve-libs as they can be a real

Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12

2013-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
On 06/03/2013 11:49 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: El lun, 03-06-2013 a las 17:24 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: [...] Yeah. The news item now advises the user that it's a good practice to run revdep-rebuild anyway, just to be safe. I would also suggest people to report bugs when they find cases not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12

2013-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/13 03:24, Zac Medico wrote: Yeah. The news item now advises the user that it's a good practice to run revdep-rebuild anyway, just to be safe. And `revdep-rebuild --library libfoobar.so.0` is still useful, unless Portage can replace targeted --library calls too? Just saying I'm not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12

2013-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
On 06/04/2013 09:20 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 04/06/13 03:24, Zac Medico wrote: Yeah. The news item now advises the user that it's a good practice to run revdep-rebuild anyway, just to be safe. And `revdep-rebuild --library libfoobar.so.0` is still useful, This is for a ABI change

Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12

2013-06-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: This is for a ABI change without bumping the soname? It's possible to trigger rebuilds for that case by using sub-slots and slot-operators. Or you could choose a longer-term solution like firebombing the upstream

Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12

2013-06-04 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/2013 04:56 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: This is for a ABI change without bumping the soname? It's possible to trigger rebuilds for that case by using sub-slots and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12

2013-06-03 Thread Markos Chandras
On 3 June 2013 01:41, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: Please review the attached news item which announces the preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12. Note that our council has discussed this change in their 2013-05-14 meeting [1], and they were in favor of allowing it. [1]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12

2013-06-03 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 05:41:21PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Please review the attached news item which announces the preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12. Note that our council has discussed this change in their 2013-05-14 meeting [1], and they were in favor of allowing it. [1]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12

2013-06-03 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:41:21 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: I'll answer to some parts with what I think the user might think; I know the answer to most of those, but the user might not. Beginning with sys-apps/portage-2.1.12, FEATURES=preserve-libs is enabled by default. This

Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12

2013-06-03 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/03/2013 06:32 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:41:21 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: The news item is good, but I agree with Tom there could be more questions. Maybe adding a link to some page which explains the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12

2013-06-03 Thread Zac Medico
On 06/03/2013 03:32 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:41:21 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: I'll answer to some parts with what I think the user might think; I know the answer to most of those, but the user might not. The news item now includes a link to this wiki page

[gentoo-dev] Draft news item: preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12

2013-06-02 Thread Zac Medico
Please review the attached news item which announces the preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12. Note that our council has discussed this change in their 2013-05-14 meeting [1], and they were in favor of allowing it. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2448/focus=2452 --