[gentoo-dev] torsmo has been recontinued named conky. plan on removing torsmo
Torsmo has been inactive upstream for well over a year http://torsmo.sourceforge.net/changelog.php The large number of bugs http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=108594&atid=650929 and large number of patches http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=108594&atid=650931 resulted in a fork - conky http://conky.sourceforge.net/. This is being actively developed by Brenden. I propose removing torsmo and placing a package.move entry so that conky will be the logical upgrade (after all it was the same code base). Objections with good logical argument or a name in torsmo/metadata.xml may be considered. -- Daniel Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Crypto/PPC/dev-embedded/Forensics/NetMon pgpihV2nntyQf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] torsmo has been recontinued named conky. plan on removing torsmo
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 23:08:13 +1100 Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I propose removing torsmo and placing a package.move entry so > that conky will be the logical upgrade (after all it was the same > code base). How will users understand what happened to their good old torsmo, which used to work fine for months but suddenly disapeared after an "emerge -u world"? I think it would be better to package.mask it with some comment like "Deprecated, masked in favor of app-admin/conky", because that's something emerge reports when it makes world updates fail (whereas package moves are absolutly silent and implicit). In short, for me it's just like any other package deprecation, because actually the "same code base" argument doesn't really matter from a user point of view. -- TGL. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] torsmo has been recontinued named conky. plan on removing torsmo
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:55:48 +0100 Thomas de Grenier de Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it would be better to package.mask it with some comment > like "Deprecated, masked in favor of app-admin/conky", because > that's something emerge reports when it makes world updates fail Oops, no, i'm wrong: when a masked package is in world but is not depended-on by anything else, world update will not fail with the comments from package.mask, but simply point to emaint and then continue, ignoring the package. And `emaint --check world` does not seem to report comments from package.mask, so my solution is not that good neither to inform users about what's happening in such a case. There is still the solution of the dummy ebuild with some relevant einfo to replace the actual deprecated package (i think i've seen that in the past, winex-cvs for instance IIRC), but that's ugly :/ -- TGL. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] torsmo has been recontinued named conky. plan on removing torsmo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I got other idea but I don't know how to code it. In ebuild you can set die on some reasons. So make in conky ebuild which will be package-move of torsmo such error that if torsmo is installed emerging conky should fail with die. And user will be asked to unmerge a torsmo manually and emerge conky then. What dou you think about such solution? - -- Paweł Madej aka Nysander http://quanteam.info | http://forum-farmaceutyczne.org http://nysander.quanteam.info | http://wiki.quanteam.info GPG key: 5861680B | keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu key fingerprint: 34A9 B8BB DFA2 4F0B EFB5 CE50 82F4 8C82 5861 680B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDvSkUgvSMglhhaAsRAm8KAKCHhRRc5v1iwTrp13iUg66UHI0qqwCfWKpJ 0q+qWyGU/jFWU5evKabY8AU= =PLT4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
