Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Upgrade Guide and EAPI

2013-09-30 Thread heroxbd
Rick \Zero_Chaos\ Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org writes: While I'm not nearly good enough to detail how this should happen exactly, please, may I beg, do an eclass revision for this. There is an r1 candidate as Paweł initiated (bug 474358) The fact that this hasn't been done clearly implies

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Upgrade Guide and EAPI

2013-09-29 Thread Luca Barbato
On 29/09/13 04:12, hero...@gentoo.org wrote: It's just a starting point, though. I still don't have a clear plan yet. After reading carefully the thread Ulrich pointed out, it seems that refactoring ebuild/eclass is invevitable, which calls for an overlay to carry it on. That would be much

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Upgrade Guide and EAPI

2013-09-28 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, heroxbd wrote: I am revisiting this topic based on previous discussions[1,2,3]. There seems to be a constant need for toolchain with a new EAPI. The only block is how can we upgrade from an ancient system?, don't bump or the upgrade path will be break. Let's figure out

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Upgrade Guide and EAPI

2013-09-28 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/28/2013 03:00 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, heroxbd wrote: I am revisiting this topic based on previous discussions[1,2,3]. There seems to be a constant need for toolchain with a new EAPI. The only block is how can we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Upgrade Guide and EAPI

2013-09-28 Thread heroxbd
Rick \Zero_Chaos\ Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org writes: On 09/28/2013 03:00 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, heroxbd wrote: I am revisiting this topic based on previous discussions[1,2,3]. There seems to be a constant need for toolchain with a new EAPI. The only block is how

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Upgrade Guide and EAPI

2013-09-28 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/28/2013 10:12 PM, hero...@gentoo.org wrote: Rick \Zero_Chaos\ Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org writes: On 09/28/2013 03:00 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, heroxbd wrote: I am revisiting this topic based on previous

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Upgrade Guide and EAPI

2013-09-27 Thread heroxbd
Dear Fellows, I am revisiting this topic based on previous discussions[1,2,3]. There seems to be a constant need for toolchain with a new EAPI. The only block is how can we upgrade from an ancient system?, don't bump or the upgrade path will be break. Let's figure out a solid upgrade path