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commit: ffea740f6d2522a07d335e57a00389fe278b7e14
Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
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Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
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Appendix: Add a list of notable retroactive changes.
This should contain all retroactive changes that were approved by the
council (and after EAPIs 0, 1 and 2 were finalised).
appendices.tex | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ebuild-vars.tex | 1 +
names.tex | 1 +
pms.bib | 8 ++++++++
4 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
diff --git a/appendices.tex b/appendices.tex
index dd40041..7227fc8 100644
--- a/appendices.tex
+++ b/appendices.tex
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ removed in 2009.
In some exceptional cases, changes to the specification have been approved by the Gentoo Council
without introducing a new EAPI. This section lists such retroactive changes.
+\subsection{Bash version}
+EAPIs \t{0}, \t{1} and \t{2} originally specified GNU Bash version 3.0. This was retroactively
+updated to version 3.2 (see table~\ref{tab:bash-version}) in November 2009.
+
\subsection{Old-style virtuals}
Historically, virtuals were special packages rather than regular ebuilds. An ebuild could specify in
the \t{PROVIDE} metadata that it supplied certain virtuals, and the package manager had to bear this
@@ -74,6 +78,32 @@ in mind when handling dependencies.
Old-style virtuals were supported by EAPIs \t{0}, \t{1}, \t{2}, \t{3} and \t{4}. They were phased
out via GLEP 37~\cite{Glep37} and finally removed in 2011.
+\subsection{EAPI parsing}
+The method to specify the EAPI of an ebuild used to be a shell variable assignment, and the
+package manager had to source the ebuild in order to determine the EAPI. Therefore any ebuild using
+a future EAPI would still have to be sourceable by old package managers, which imposed restrictions
+e.\,g.\ on updating the Bash version or on possible changes of global scope functions. Several
+approaches to overcome this limitation were discussed, notably GLEP 55~\cite{Glep55}, which was
+rejected though.
+
+The current syntax of the \t{EAPI} assignment statement (see section~\ref{sec:eapi}), allowing
+the package manager to obtain the EAPI from the ebuild by a regular expression match and without
+sourcing it, was introduced in May 2012.
+
+\subsection{Package names}
+Previously, package names were only required not to end in a hyphen followed by one or more digits.
+In October 2012 this was tightened to the specification in section~\ref{sec:package-names}, namely
+that they must not end in a hyphen followed by anything resembling a package version.
+
+\subsection{Asterisk in dependency specification}
+In the \t{=} dependency operator specified in section~\ref{sec:dep-operator}, an asterisk used to
+induce string prefix comparison instead of the normal version comparison logic. That could lead to
+surprising results, e.\,g.\ \t{=dev-lang/perl-5.2*} matching \t{dev-lang/perl-5.22.0}. Moreover,
+implementation in package managers deviated from what was specified.
+
+String prefix matching was effective in EAPIs \t{0}, \t{1}, \t{2}, \t{3}, \t{4} and \t{5}. It was
+retroactively dropped in favour of the current behaviour in October 2015.
+
% vim: set filetype=tex fileencoding=utf8 et tw=100 spell spelllang=en :
%%% Local Variables:
diff --git a/ebuild-vars.tex b/ebuild-vars.tex
index b910f25..8c05ce9 100644
--- a/ebuild-vars.tex
+++ b/ebuild-vars.tex
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ Ebuilds may define any of the following variables:
\end{centertable}
\subsection{EAPI}
+\label{sec:eapi}
An empty or unset \t{EAPI} value is equivalent to \t{0}. Ebuilds must not assume that they will get
a particular one of these two values if they are expecting one of these two values.
diff --git a/names.tex b/names.tex
index 15c720a..d00088e 100644
--- a/names.tex
+++ b/names.tex
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ a hyphen, a dot or a plus sign.
names will contain a hyphen.
\subsection{Package names}
+\label{sec:package-names}
A package name may contain any of the characters [\t{A-Za-z0-9+_-}]. It must not begin with a
hyphen or a plus sign, and must not end in a hyphen followed by anything matching the version
syntax described in section~\ref{sec:version-spec}.
diff --git a/pms.bib b/pms.bib
index 2221f75..914c41f 100644
--- a/pms.bib
+++ b/pms.bib
@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@
howpublished = "\url{https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:44}"
}
+@misc{Glep55,
+ author = {Piotr Jaroszyński},
+ title = {{GLEP} 55: Use {EAPI}-suffixed ebuilds},
+ year = 2007,
+ month = Dec,
+ howpublished = "\url{https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:55}"
+}
+
@misc{Glep68,
author = {Michał Górny},
title = {{GLEP} 68: Package and category metadata},