Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

2013-04-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:56:45 + "Aaron W. Swenson" wrote: > ROOT being a user set variable, having ROOT be an empty string by > default still does not guarantee that ROOT won't end with a > slash. Even if we change it so that it defaults to an empty string, it > won't negate the need to do ${RO

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

2013-04-15 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 06:59:19PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:39:44 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:58:07 +0200 > > Michał Górny wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:22:42 +0100 > > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > > On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:23:57

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

2013-04-14 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:39:44 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:58:07 +0200 > Michał Górny wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:22:42 +0100 > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:23:57 +0200 > > > Michał Górny wrote: > > > > As most of you probably doesn't know

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

2013-04-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:58:07 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:22:42 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:23:57 +0200 > > Michał Górny wrote: > > > As most of you probably doesn't know, PMS guarantees that ${D} > > > always ends with a slash. It seems that t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

2013-04-14 Thread Michał Górny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:14:57 +0200 hasufell wrote: > On 04/13/2013 11:23 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Your thoughts? > > > > Sounds ok, but how will the transition happen exactly? Will the > behavior just change for new EAPIs or for all? If for al

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

2013-04-14 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:22:42 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:23:57 +0200 > Michał Górny wrote: > > As most of you probably doesn't know, PMS guarantees that ${D} always > > ends with a slash. It seems that this particular wording was enforced > > by historical portage behav

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

2013-04-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:23:57 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > As most of you probably doesn't know, PMS guarantees that ${D} always > ends with a slash. It seems that this particular wording was enforced > by historical portage behavior (instead of fixing the ebuilds...) yet > it didn't ever get really

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

2013-04-14 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2013 11:23 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Your thoughts? > Sounds ok, but how will the transition happen exactly? Will the behavior just change for new EAPIs or for all? If for all, who will do the tinderbox run? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

2013-04-14 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:32:29 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > There you can find at least my rough estimates of how many ebuilds > are directly affected. Shortly saying, if we fix PMS, we need to fix, > say, 200 ebuilds. If we leave it as is, we have around 1750 obviously > broken ebuilds + over 3000

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

2013-04-14 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:23:57 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > As most of you probably doesn't know, PMS guarantees that ${D} always > ends with a slash. It seems that this particular wording was enforced > by historical portage behavior (instead of fixing the ebuilds...) yet > it didn't ever get reall

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

2013-04-14 Thread Peter Stuge
Michał Górny wrote: > Your thoughts? +1 pgp1yo32f0xoD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

2013-04-14 Thread Gregory M. Turner
On 4/13/2013 2:23 PM, Michał Górny wrote: Your thoughts? +1, this causes untold agonies for my pet platform. See #465772 for more thorough griping :) -gmt

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash

2013-04-13 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, As most of you probably doesn't know, PMS guarantees that ${D} always ends with a slash. It seems that this particular wording was enforced by historical portage behavior (instead of fixing the ebuilds...) yet it didn't ever get really widespread. Specifically, it is awfully counter-intuit