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Bug 925760 - portage: make sub-slots world-recordable
Summary: portage: make sub-slots world-recordable
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2024-02-29 13:30 UTC by Joonas Niilola
Modified: 2024-03-01 04:55 UTC (History)
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Description Joonas Niilola gentoo-dev 2024-02-29 13:30:07 UTC
Hey,

this has come up every now and then: a neat new feature would be to make subslots world-recordable. So people could pin subslots to world-file.

For example:

app-containers/lxd:0/lts would only allow updating 0/lts lxd's.

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-containers/lxd

So 5.0.2 would update to 5.0.3 even in ~unstable system.

We have some packages that use "fakeslotting" to get past this: nginx and firefox come to mind. That's not how slots should be used and we don't want more packages to adopt this style either. But currently 0/lts is annoying to users because they need to resort to package.masking, instead of it just working in a world-file.