On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 21:17:26 +0200 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Dnia 2013-07-24, o godz. 13:23:15 > Ryan Hill <dirtye...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): > > > On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:48:14 -0700 > > ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > On 7/24/13 8:31 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:15:51AM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > >> Actually, Portage normally handles this situation gracefully by using > > > >> the dependencies from the portage tree instead of vdb. However, in the > > > >> case of a slot-operator dep, it always uses vdb. > > > >> > > > >> See bug 477544. > > > >> > > > >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477544 > > > > > > > > Aha, thanks for the bug, missed it. Well, my recommendation is still > > > > valid until portage gets fixed. Glad to know someone's looking into > > > > it though. > > > > > > Can we get that recommendation to the devmanual possibly? > > > > > > I'm still a little bit confused what exactly would warrant such a > > > revision bump, and why. > > > > Revision bumps are necessary when there are changes made to the files that > > are installed by a package. That's it. > > > > When bumping to EAPI 5 it is recommended to do a rev bump so this sub-slot > > business can be recorded in the vdb. > > > > Are there any others that aren't personal opinion? > > > > Course you can do a rev bump for whatever reason you want, but some people > > will frown on it unless you have a good reason. eg. if you revbump a > > stable ebuild for a build fix i will spend some time sighing at my screen. > > Actually per PMS you are required to revbump (and therefore require > upgrade on users' side) whenever you change the deps and don't expect > to add a new version soon enough. Otherwise your changes don't get > spread and users end up with never-ending blockers and stuff like that. > > Other thing is that Portage explicitly ignores PMS in this matter > and uses dependencies from ebuilds rather than recorded ones. This is > supposedly wrong, supposedly slow but allows us to be lazy. Thank god. That is insane. Let's not document that one in the manual. -- Ryan Hill psn: dirtyepic_sk gcc-porting/toolchain/wxwidgets @ gentoo.org 47C3 6D62 4864 0E49 8E9E 7F92 ED38 BD49 957A 8463
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