| Summary: | www-client/firefox slotting/versioning system should be improved | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | korte |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | gentoo, sam |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
21:17 <+gyakovlev> also it may be possible to fake-slot it 21:17 <+gyakovlev> like firefox:esr/91 21:17 <+gyakovlev> so firefox:esr will work 21:17 <+gyakovlev> without specifying subslot. 21:17 < Jens3> wtf, idk much about (sub)slotting 21:17 <+gyakovlev> rust used to be fake-slotted like that long ago, we had :beta and :stable 21:18 <+gyakovlev> but those could not be co-installed, so it's fake slotting. 21:18 <+gyakovlev> by default portage assumes a slotted packages can co-exist. 21:18 < Jens3> If there is a solution which is acceptable by the developers and leads to an improvement for me, that would be fine 21:19 <+gyakovlev> idk, I'm here just because I coordinate rust bumps with mozilla team =) don't know a thing about ff/moz maintenance. 21:19 < Jens3> how about adding fake-slotting to the bug? 21:20 <+gyakovlev> feel free to copy the text to the bug The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d6780881606b271e948ee1f1bdbcd2d38dec1498 commit d6780881606b271e948ee1f1bdbcd2d38dec1498 Author: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-02-08 17:22:03 +0000 Commit: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-02-08 17:28:03 +0000 www-client/firefox: add 97.0 - introduce fakeslotting. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/828531 Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> www-client/firefox/Manifest | 99 +++ www-client/firefox/firefox-97.0.ebuild | 1258 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www-client/firefox/metadata.xml | 1 + 3 files changed, 1358 insertions(+) Additionally, it has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b6fb6c28b1aa3b4c6d7e989cf5e75982e2d45d2c commit b6fb6c28b1aa3b4c6d7e989cf5e75982e2d45d2c Author: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-02-08 17:21:06 +0000 Commit: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-02-08 17:28:02 +0000 www-client/firefox: add 91.6.0 - introduce fakeslotting. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/828531 Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> www-client/firefox/Manifest | 98 +++ www-client/firefox/firefox-91.6.0.ebuild | 1240 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 1338 insertions(+) |
The firefox slots/versions are not optimal for me to select the right version. (And everybody wants something else ;) ) recent result from "equery m firefox": * www-client/firefox [gentoo] [..] Keywords: 78.15.0:0/esr78: amd64 arm64 x86 ~ppc64 Keywords: 91.3.0:0/esr91: amd64 arm64 Keywords: 91.4.0:0/esr91: ~amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86 Keywords: 93.0:0/93: ~amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86 Keywords: 94.0.1-r1:0/94: Keywords: 94.0.2:0/94: ~amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86 Keywords: 95.0:0/95: ~amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86 I would like to use the latest esr version on arm64 (91.4.0) with [arm64|~arm64]. Sam recommended "put www-client/firefox:0/esr91 in package.accept_keywords?" For new esr versions (e.g. 102) I need to add additional lines and if I forget to, I have an outdated version. It would be nice, if there could be a solution like 1. suggestion 2 packages: firefox and firefox-esr 2. suggestion from sam, if the subslot was 0/esr, you could do stuff like package.mask >=www-client/firefox-91:0/esr to say you only wanted an ESR before 91 etc i think you get a get a lot more flexibility with 0/esr Are there any reasons to choose slots like /esr91? Reproducible: Always