Hi, 13.09.14 22:03, Peter Stuge написав(ла): >> E.g. we in downstream have some patches, when upstream changes >> related code (e.g. applying our patches), ebuild fails to build. > > I consider this a separate issue however. I would actually expect > there to be a policy which forbids patches on live ebuilds. Make > another live ebuild or maybe an overlay if you want to offer a > different set of commits than the upstream repo. >
In the ideal country of elves. In the real life it can be not possible to build and install software in a given distribution without downstream patches. You can find examples of such live ebuilds in Gentoo tree. > >> Everything in live ebuild can change, so it will fail. >> It can be not crap, but some improvements, but it does not matter >> for the possibility of building of a given ebuild. > > Patches aside I completely agree that a live ebuild is a moving > target, but to me that is a good thing, in fact the very essence > of open source. > Open source is not about instability. It is just about sources being available. No more, no less. ;-) Anyway, summarizing, it is completely impossible to be sure that live ebuild will be buildable for you on a given arch in the next 15 min., even if it was so in the last 15 min. -- Jauhien
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