On Sun, 07 Jun 2009, Steven J Long wrote:
I'd just like to know what the implications would be for users if we
kept the .ebuild extension, and a new PMS were rolled out stating
that the mangler were allowed to find the EAPI without sourcing (and
giving the restrictions) once portage 2.2 was
Ulrich Mueller wrote:
Let's assume for the moment that we change from .ebuild to .eb.
Then we obviously cannot change all ebuilds in the tree to .eb,
otherwise old Portage versions would see an empty tree and there would
be no upgrade path.
Or am I missing something?
That is a good point.
On Sunday 07 June 2009 11:34:12 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Sun, 07 Jun 2009, Steven J Long wrote:
I'd just like to know what the implications would be for users if we
kept the .ebuild extension, and a new PMS were rolled out stating
that the mangler were allowed to find the EAPI without
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Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Sun, 07 Jun 2009, Steven J Long wrote:
I'd just like to know what the implications would be for users if we
kept the .ebuild extension, and a new PMS were rolled out stating
that the mangler were allowed to find the EAPI
Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org posted 4a2baaa9.4030...@gentoo.org,
excerpted below, on Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:55:21 -0400:
As far as an upgrade path goes - we could provide a one-time tarball
that will update portage (and its essential dependencies) to a version
that can get users out of this
Patrick Lauer wrote:
And if you really absolutely have to do that you can change the sync
location on every disruptive change, but (imo) that should be
avoided.
If mirroring and other practical concerns weren't an issue what you're
essentially describing is just moving to a CVS/git/etc
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On 2009.06.07 10:34, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Sun, 07 Jun 2009, Steven J Long wrote:
I'd just like to know what the implications would be for users if
we
kept the .ebuild extension, and a new PMS were rolled out stating
that the mangler
Roy Bamford wrote:
I've spent some time reading all of this years emails on GLEP55 and
added a few lines to version 1.5 which is the last offical version.
Thanks for all the hard work.
My apologies for my mistaken comment at the end of the last Council meeting.
Clearly the mangler /does/ need
