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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Very bad ebuild-writing practice.
From:       Blake Watters <sbw () metalab ! unc ! edu>
Date:       2002-08-17 18:40:33
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Wouldn't it seem most reasonable for the ebuild author to create 
snapshots, test them, and have those snapshots merged into Portage? Then 
the package can be repackaged at a later date, tested again and released. 
This also allows you to use the date as the version number, bypassing any 
problems with the naming conventions.

I agree that hourly build releases should not make it into the portage 
tree unmasked. Perhaps masking such packages or creating an experimental 
organizational unit under portage for such packages to live would be 
advantageous.

Blake

 
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Dan Naumov wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:30:37 -0700
> Jeremiah Mahler <jmahler@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> > But suppose someone did want an ebuild for the hourly CVS snapshots?
> > How should it be named?
> 
> My personal belief is that ebuilds of hourly CVS snapshots should never leave the \
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY of the original author. IMHO, Gentoo Portage is no place for \
> autogenerated, untested CVS stuff. How are you going to go around non-compiling \
> snapshots of broken trees and new compile options that appear from time to timw \
> anyways ? 
> Ebuilds should be writted for things that are "set in stone" and don't go around \
> changing on an hourly basis. You really don't want to have 2 users run "emerge \
> blah" and get different versions of the same program, even though "emerge -u rsync" \
> was run at the same time. This would be a horrible mess (which is currently the \
> case with QuakeForge ebuild). 
> Sincerely,
> Dan Naumov aka Jago
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