Bug 66085 – ebuild patch for autounstable

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Mike Doty (RETIRED) 2004-10-01 22:28:21 UTC]

this patch adds FEATURES="autounstable" support.  when merging, if a package or dependency has no stable builds for an arch(amd64,x86,sparc), but unstable build(s), portage will select the highest package marked ~arch.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Mike Doty (RETIRED) 2004-10-01 22:30:02 UTC]

Created attachment 40902 [details, diff]
emerge patch from 2.0.51_rc7

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-10-01 22:44:40 UTC]

imho this is something we dont want

[Comment 3 Travis Tilley (RETIRED) 2004-10-01 23:07:08 UTC]

i think this is pretty cool, but i'm strange like that :P

[Comment 4 Travis Tilley (RETIRED) 2004-10-01 23:12:27 UTC]

rather, it looks like that happy in-between place in the middle of stable and ~arch.

[Comment 5 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2004-10-09 13:40:07 UTC]

This will not be included. It is directly in conflict with QA.
Stable should never have testing deps.

It also appears, without more context than just the patch, that
it makes explicit-deps come from stable, and all underlying deps
come from testing.