-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Zac Medico wrote: | Hi everyone, | | Please consider a PROPERTIES=live value that, when set in an ebuild, | will serve to indicate that the ebuild will use some form of "live" | source code that may vary each time that the package is installed. | The intention is for PROPERTIES=live to have a relatively pure and | simple meaning. Therefore, the definition is intentionally more | narrow than the definitions previously suggested for the related | RESTRICT=live [1] and PROPERTIES=live-sources [2] values. In the | future we may add additional (orthogonal) properties to represent | other things like locking [3]. | | Since there is no direct correspondence between what PROPERTIES=live | represents and any existing ebuild metadata (though there is some | limited correspondence with various INHERITED values), addition of | PROPERTIES=live will provide metadata that is useful in at least a | few ways: | | * Make the @live-rebuild package set [4] more accurate. | | * Make repoman's LIVEVCS.stable check more accurate. | | * Add exemptions to repoman's KEYWORDS.missing and KEYWORDS.dropped | checks.
Although an exemption to KEYWORDS.missing is in itself already a good progress, imho it would be even better if repoman, pcheck and other QA testing tools complained if there were any keywords set for an ebuild with PROPERTIES="live". | Do the name and definition of this PROPERTIES=live value seem good? | Would anybody like to discuss any changes to the name, definition, | or both? Seems a good idea. Thanks for all the work on the good proposals you've submitted lately to the dev ml. | [1] | http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_164fd8d5d513121ab772509d06a7b27a.xml | [2] | http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_187585c5d49b69034183719ff473710d.xml | [3] | http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_7b5e4610fe1802149960ae5365bdedce.xml | [4] | http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/zmedico/2008/07/31/live_rebuild_package_set - -- Regards, Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org Gentoo- forums / Userrel / SPARC / KDE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiwksAACgkQcAWygvVEyAJHEgCeKrJF4tVLd7etilp9JdbQTyCq BZUAmweZ+nbSVwj+kpeQWJb4MdVUkN15 =+wSW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
