On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Robin H. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to implore ALL developers to please ensure that they don't
> commit broken stuff into profiles, esp. corrupt atoms in package.mask.

Imploring is ineffective, humans fail.

>
> This change went into profiles/package.mask, and caused breakage for one
> sync window.
>> +=net-p2p/ktorrent-3.2_*
> A few days ago we had a different one:
>> +>=dev-util/monodevelop-java--1.9
> That managed to break the sync during rsync, but also by timing also
> managed to end up in the daily snapshot.
>
> If it's in profiles, or a core system package, please be very careful
> with your commits. Both of the above were fixed in less than 30 minutes,
> but breakage had already been seen at that point.

I've filed bug 249761 to track a reasonable fix for this.

-Alec

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