Re: [proaudio] (cvs|svn|git) vs 9999

[Frieder Bürzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dominique Michel wrote:
> Le Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:06:37 +0200,
> Frieder Bürzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
>   
> > carmen wrote:
> >     
> > > wondering if theres any concensus on -9999 versions vs seperate -cvs directories? with 9999, with -cvs, it breaks the continuity of one directory per package, and additional checks must be added to avoid conflicts.
> > >
> > > as an example, ive installed libgig-cvs. now on a -DNuav world, its trying to install libgig-2.0.2. i had to add libgig-9999 to package.provided (thus the seperate -cvs version didnt prevent me from /etc/portage file editing after all. id rather edit package.keywords once to enable -9999 version than have to continually do -uav to make sure non-cvs versions arent being brought in beacise i didnt populate package.provided.. preemptive handling of the situation.
> > >
> > > another example is the patchage-cvs and om-cvs ebuilds that i submitted a while ago. the author has changed to SVN, at a different host. at this point, the -cvs should be changed to -svn to be consistent (but still no consistency to whether a 'unreleased' version is -cvs, -svn, -git, -bzr, -mercurial, or what... confusing users as to which version to try). also it doesnt show up in eg eix or esearch 'available versions'. 
> > >
> > > in any case, my vote is for -9999. this is what the main portage tree does as well..
> > >
> > > c,c
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > first I just wanted to have -cvs -svn, -... in the overlay to see 
> > clearly if it's a -cvs -svn, -...  snapshot or not.
> > But over time I feel like using -9999 is the better way as it minimize 
> > (I hope) maintenance.
> >
> > So If I change all -cvs -svn, -... to -9999 what keywords should they be?
> > ~xARCH or -*
> >
> > @all
> > please express your opinions? Should we change to 9999?
> >
> > Greetz
> >     Frieder
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     
> I don't care as long at it's work. But it is a good idea if it will
> minimize the maintenance,
>
> For the keyboard, I don't know what will append if gentoo have a ~arch
> version when we have the same program also with ~arch. It portage will
> choose in all cases the -9999 in the overlay, I prefer ~arch, but if it
> is not the case, -* will be better. So, can we have a certitude with
> ~arch? I thing at the worst case will be if portage have a -9999 ~arch
> ebuild at the same time as the overlay.
>
> Cheers,
> Dominique
>
>   
We can add -x86, (-arch whatever the package is capable),  instead of 
~x86 or -*
So to add a -arch masked package:
echo "category/packageName -arch" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

maybe this is better than -*

Greetz
   Frieder