Attachment 315765 Details for Bug 421993 – mask VCS ebuilds patch

[patch] mask VCS ebuilds patch

0001-keywording-Add-blurb-about-masking-VCS-ebuilds.patch (text/plain), 1.37 KB, created by Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) on 2012-06-19 15:34:36 UTC

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Creator: Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED)

Created: 2012-06-19 15:34:36 UTC

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>From b72d41cb7c328908269b3801d1980d64d072c743 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org>
>Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:31:02 +0000
>Subject: [PATCH] keywording: Add blurb about masking VCS ebuilds
>
>---
> keywording/text.xml |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/keywording/text.xml b/keywording/text.xml
>index f41c8e3..0db8982 100644
>--- a/keywording/text.xml
>+++ b/keywording/text.xml
>@@ -297,6 +297,36 @@ so that you can tidy up, file a bug.
> </body>
> </section>
> 
>+<section>
>+<title>VCS Ebuilds</title>
>+<body>
>+
>+<p>
>+    VCS Ebuilds should always be masked or without keywords. This applies to
>+    "live" ebuilds (-9999*) or ebuilds that use a "VCS tag" or such to provide
>+    some pseudo version-like number but still uses VCS to fetch.
>+</p>
>+
>+<p>
>+    Keeping a VCS ebuild visible (non-masked) is bad for a couple of reasons,
>+    here are a few that have been expressed by users:
>+</p>
>+
>+<ul>
>+	<li>
>+        Cannot "emerge -f" while online then emerge while offline. Pulling from
>+        VCS breaks this.
>+	</li>
>+	<li>
>+        Some machines are behind firewalls that are restrictive. Users should
>+        expect all non-masked ebuilds to be fetched on common mirroring ports,
>+        eg port 80 from distfiles.gentoo.org
>+	</li>
>+</ul>
>+
>+</body>
>+</section>
>+
> </body>
> </chapter>
> </guide>
>-- 
>1.7.3.4
>

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