Re: [gentoo-dev] mtime preservation

2009-11-23 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:49:25AM -0700, Denis Dupeyron wrote: > 2- Here's the second idea, shamelessly pasted (note that it says EAPI4 > below instead of EAPI3 but this is irrelevant to the idea): > > "Thus, I would let EAPI 4 ebuilds call dopreservemtimes (with an API > similar to docompress) i

Re: [gentoo-dev] mtime preservation

2009-11-23 Thread Zac Medico
Denis Dupeyron wrote: > 1- All packages are treated equally. Some files have their mtime > preserved, some don't. We need to agree on what files have their mtime > preserved and at what phase the mtime is frozen. I'd vote for method 1. > My intention is to ask the council to vote on which method

[gentoo-dev] mtime preservation

2009-11-23 Thread Denis Dupeyron
I'm going to try and sum up the situation of the thread started in [1]. Feel free to correct me or add to the summary in replies. There seems to be two main ideas. I have removed the authors' name in quotes below in order to make sure we talk about the ideas and not who proposed them. 1- All pack

[gentoo-dev] QA last rites for sys-apps/inputd

2009-11-23 Thread Diego E . Pettenò
# Diego E. Pettenò (23 Nov 2009) # on behalf of QA team # # Fails to build since November 2008 (bug #248390). # # Removal on 2010-01-22 sys-apps/inputd