On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:11:58 +0100 Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ok, sorry for being dumb :-) | What exactly is the issue there? I don't see the issue in setting SLOT | depending on ... uhm ... some variable. Looks kinda logical at first | glance, but I'm not aware of the issues it causes.
PVR includes the revision of an ebuild. This means that if a revbump is made on a webapp package to fix a critical flaw, users will still have the old broken package installed too. This is especially relevant for security issues, but also applies to other kinds of fix. Ebuilds can't override this either. Read on in the eclass and you'll notice that it checks that SLOT hasn't been changed to something sane. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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