On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:09:38 -0700, "Imran Sher Rafique" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I hope this doesn't come across as too much of a rant. > > Summary > ------- > Is it accepted practice to allow for changes in an ebuild without > changing the > ebuild version number?
Unfortunately yes ;-). This also has been a problem for packages.gentoo.org code, because I basically have to make a series of assumptions as to when an ebuild is considered "new" or "updated". Originally I thought I could just just look at the timestamps on the ebuilds, but that turned out to be a very bad determiniation of when an ebuild has changed. Then I thought revision numbers, but that's innacurate too. Basically now it comes down to looking at the current ebuild in portage and comparing it to the last time I looked at it. It's much more expensive, because you have to look at *every* ebuild, not just "ebuilds changed since x date/time" or "ebuilds newer than version y". Oh no, now I sound like I'm ranting ;-) -m -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
