Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:17:03 +0100
Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
No, but something can represent the most commonly used models. We
can't do -scm packages for upstreams that do utterly crazy stuff
anyway, so we'll stick to the reasonably sane ones.
So we stick to a subset we assume is what we'd expect from upstream.
Yupyup. That was what we had in mind when we worked out -scm.
Topic branches can be covered by use flags.
So I cannot track mob, master and devel at the same time with -scm
alone, I need to get useflag change deeply the ebuild behavior.
If you're looking to track topics rather than versions, yes. Using
versions to track topics gets extremely messy.
How do I track an upstream who has a 0.34 branch (which is equal to
or ahead of the most recent 0.34.x release) a 0.36 branch (which
is equal to or ahead of the most recent 0.36.x release)
In those cases is enough take the package version and add one w/out
requiring any additional version component...
Be specific. Explain how this works when, say, 0.34.4 is current, you
have a 0.34.5_live and 0.34.5 comes out.
and a master branch (which is ahead of any release) using the live
property?
The current versioning alone cannot do it cleanly.
Hence -scm...
that cannot do as well for more than a single target w/out using use flags.
Then if you continued to read you'll notice that
Luca Barbato wrote:
> The same trick you'd use to track any number of independent branches
> ahead any release could be used with the current versioning system to
> archive the same result: use flags triggering the live property and
> redefining the source accordingly (use live-master, use live-pu, use
> live-mob) in every ebuild for said package.
>
>
> So the bare minimum to keep the tree w/out "hand made infinity" (-9999)
> is just use flags and property live as you just stated here, no strict
> need for -scm for such task. I checked with zmedico and PROPERTIES
> support conditionals so that is the _bare_ minimum to archive the use
> case "I want to track a/any number of non version branch of a/any target
> source controlled tree from upstream"
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