On Tue, 02 May 2017 14:32:13 +0200 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 2 May 2017, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > > > Also very common is that he changes fully qualified package names > > (which is the correct syntax per [1]) into fully qualified package > > atoms (which is the legacy syntax). Bug 616260 is one such > > example. > > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html > > Can't the stable-bot enforce the correct syntax? Correct syntax, you say? [1] says: """ = Version Dependencies = Sometimes a particular version of a package is needed. Where this is known, it should be specified. A simple example: DEPEND=">=dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7d" """ What happens when you want an exact version? Can you write """ DEPEND="dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7d" """ instead? (Don't answer that, keep reading.) [2] says: """ Atom Prefix Operators [> >= = <= <] Sometimes you want to be able to depend on general versions rather than specifying exact versions all the time. Hence we provide standard boolean operators: Examples: >media-libs/libgd-1.6 >=media-libs/libgd-1.6 =media-libs/libgd-1.6 <=media-libs/libgd-1.6 <media-libs/libgd-1.6 """ PMS does not define what a valid atom looks like, except that it somehow doesn't describe atoms to begin with, apparently because that has yet to be replaced with something better, or is perhaps up to the PM to define. Where the PM is sys-apps/portage, the syntax that someone with the correct privileges managed to add to bugs.gentoo.org without any reconciliation with the community. As long as this is not resolved: # emerge -vp net-misc/youtube-dl-2017.05.01 !!! 'net-misc/youtube-dl-2017.05.01' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. and as long as this works: # emerge -vp =net-misc/youtube-dl-2017.05.01 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: [ebuild U ~] net-misc/youtube-dl-2017.05.01::gentoo [2017.04.26::gentoo] USE="offensive {-test}" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 -python3_5 -python3_6B Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 0 KiB I suggest these privileged people try to come to their senses and stop appropriating bits of the Gentoo Project because of differences in opinion. I also suggest that the people who half finished the work on getting the Package list going also finish the work and implement rigorous checks for sys-apps/portage compliance, which would actually help present automated target lists to test systems that don't need any mangling, ever again. plz, jer PS: It might be a week before I feel like reading the "don't touch my stuff" cabal again, so please don't mind if I happen to touch your stuff while you work out what's wrong with your attitude. [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html [2] https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/ebuild.5.html
