Dnia 2014-07-21, o godz. 23:06:07 Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> El lun, 21-07-2014 a las 20:55 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: > > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:53:04 +0200 > > "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > Revision must be bumped when the on-disk files installed by the > > > ebuild are changed. > > > Nothing about dependencies. > > > > > > This has been policy for a LONG time, and we're not going to change > > > it overnight just because you protest. > > > > Policy used to be that you'd do a revbump when you wanted users to > > reinstall stuff, and you wouldn't otherwise. The only complication is > > that sometimes you want users to reinstall stuff so that there's > > accurate dependency information available, rather than because > > something has changed. > > > > Maybe this could be solved by having two kinds of revisions: > - One would rebuild all as usually (for example, -r1...) > - The other one would only regenerate VDB and wouldn't change the > installed files (for example, -r1.1) > > But I am not sure if it could be viable from a "technical" point of > view :( I'm afraid it couldn't. The major problem is not knowing *when* to migrate metadata, portage usually gets that right. The problem is in getting the correct output which is often near to impossible. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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