Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-23 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 09:42:44PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:39:26 -0700 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -r* is an ebuild convention; upstream (exemption of older daft portage releases) doesn't use it, as such we define it; should define it as simple as

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-23 Thread Philip Walls
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 09:42:44PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:39:26 -0700 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -r* is an ebuild convention; upstream (exemption of older daft portage releases) doesn't use it, as such we define it; should define it as simple as

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-22 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:39:26 -0700 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -r* is an ebuild convention; upstream (exemption of older daft portage releases) doesn't use it, as such we define it; should define it as simple as possible without castrating it's use. So to you having to understand

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-21 Thread George Shapovalov
субота, 21. жовтень 2006 01:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ви написали: [...] I'm writing to ask for your opinion on a change to sys-apps/portage that would allow users to maintain local revisions of ebuilds, such as net-www/apache-2.0.58-r2-local1. [...] Um, I am not clear on what exactly your

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-21 Thread Philip Walls
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:26:00PM -0700, Brian Harring wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:05:22PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, In designing an enterprise infrastructure around Gentoo at my place of employment, I have discovered a feature that would improve Gentoo's

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-21 Thread Joel Martin
Instead of -rY-localX, I do -rX0Y the following in my local overlays. This gets the same effect and maintains both version numbers. And if you are worried about a revision number exceeding 99, then just do -rX00Y. This works without requiring code change to portage. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:51:19 + Philip Walls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This argument here can also be applied to the -r#.# solution you | mentioned, so I think the decision between -r#.# and -local# is really | just a matter of aesthetics. I'm on the fence as to which is best. The -r#.#.#.#

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-21 Thread Joel Martin
Simon Stelling wrote: [Sat Oct 21 2006, 09:27:24AM EDT] This only assures that your version will be preferred as long as the version number is the same, but is really not what malverian is after. true. -- Joel Martin (kanaka) Open Source no BILL . no GATES Costs nothing

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-21 Thread Philip Walls
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 03:27:24PM +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: Joel Martin wrote: Instead of -rY-localX, I do -rX0Y the following in my local overlays. This gets the same effect and maintains both version numbers. And if you are worried about a revision number exceeding 99, then just do

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-21 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 02:27:19PM +, Philip Walls wrote: On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 02:34:08PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:51:19 + Philip Walls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This argument here can also be applied to the -r#.# solution you | mentioned, so I

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:35:06 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Still have the issue with the = operator though, not sure which way | to go there: The = operator (without a *) shouldn't ever be used in ebuilds or profiles. Not using the ~ operator is asking for disaster... -- Ciaran

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-21 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:40:45 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:35:06 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Still have the issue with the = operator though, not sure which way | to go there: The = operator (without a *) shouldn't ever be used in

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-21 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 09:35:06PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:31:31 -0700 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be aware that if you reuse the vercmp logic, you're getting the special case float comparison rules, meaning 1.02 is less then 1.1 in comparison...

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-20 Thread malverian
Hello all, In designing an enterprise infrastructure around Gentoo at my place of employment, I have discovered a feature that would improve Gentoo's usefulness greatly in this field. I'm writing to ask for your opinion on a change to sys-apps/portage that would allow users to maintain local

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-20 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:05:22PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, In designing an enterprise infrastructure around Gentoo at my place of employment, I have discovered a feature that would improve Gentoo's usefulness greatly in this field. I'm writing to ask for your opinion on