Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-11 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:11:37 +0100 Torsten Veller wrote: > > Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > > > But if we look on tag of screen-4.0.3 or its release: > > > screen-4.0.3.tar.gz07-Aug-2008 06:30 821K > > > screen-4.0.3.tar.gz.sig07-Aug-2008 06:30 65 > > *screen-4.0.3 (25 Oct 2006) >

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-11 Thread Torsten Veller
> Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > > But if we look on tag of screen-4.0.3 or its release: > > screen-4.0.3.tar.gz07-Aug-2008 06:30 821K > > screen-4.0.3.tar.gz.sig07-Aug-2008 06:30 65 *screen-4.0.3 (25 Oct 2006) Part of the famous "Software from the future" series. Proudly presented

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-09 Thread Duncan
Christian Faulhammer posted on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:13:22 +0100 as excerpted: > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>: >> 1) Users using ** in their package.keywords file should know enough >> about what they're doing to use their own package.mask, as well. If >> they're using ** in the keywords file, the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-08 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Duncan wrote: In theory that's what those stupid version string thingys are for, but it's s much easier just to forget one! =:^[ Maybe something about this should go in the handbook -- a suggestion that if one is going to use a package.unmask entry, that they copy the package.mask entry o

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-08 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>: > 1) Users using ** in their package.keywords file should know enough > about what they're doing to use their own package.mask, as well. If > they're using ** in the keywords file, they're /saying/ they're > reading to handle such things, after all, why shouldn'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-07 Thread Kent Fredric
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > 2) That won't necessarily stop the bugs from rolling in. Some devs may > > get tired of live pkg bugs and package.mask it, thus putting up a double- > > barrier to t

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-07 Thread Duncan
Nirbheek Chauhan posted on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:38:56 +0530 as excerpted: > We had something interesting happen with policykit. It was masked for a > very long time, and so all users of policykit had "sys-auth/policykit" > in p.unmask. Then it was unmasked, but of course who bothers cleaning up > t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-07 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > 2) That won't necessarily stop the bugs from rolling in.  Some devs may > get tired of live pkg bugs and package.mask it, thus putting up a double- > barrier to the live ebuild.  If users jump BOTH barriers and fall over > the

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-07 Thread Duncan
Christian Faulhammer posted on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:33:12 +0100 as excerpted: > William Hubbs : >> > * Masking live... >> > Heck no. This is not proper usage. Just use keywords mask. >> > KEYWORDS="". Problem solved and the package.mask is smaller. (Note, >> > in overlays do what ever you want, sin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-07 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 07:33:12PM +0100, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > William Hubbs : > > > * Masking live... > > > Heck no. This is not proper usage. Just use keywords mask. > > > KEYWORDS="". Problem solved and the package.mask is smaller. (Note, > > > in overlays do what ever you want

[gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

2009-11-07 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, William Hubbs : > > * Masking live... > > Heck no. This is not proper usage. Just use keywords mask. > > KEYWORDS="". Problem solved and the package.mask is smaller. (Note, > > in overlays do what ever you want, since it does not polute the > > main mask from g-x86). > > True. If we mask l