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| From: | Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Overlays and Metadata Cache | ||
| Date: | Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:16:02 | ||
| Message-Id: | 4A3D2767.20606@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Overlays and Metadata Cache by Patrick Lauer |
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| 4 | Patrick Lauer wrote: |
| 5 | > The only issue I have found with this idea relates to eclasses - overriding |
| 6 | > in-tree eclasses to be precise. The problem there is that it invalidates in- |
| 7 | > tree metadata and potentially affects other overlays too. So that's a bit of a |
| 8 | > bummer, but then I wonder how common that case is. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | It seems like it should only be a problem for people who use |
| 11 | eclass-overrides in /etc/portage/repos.conf [1] (this is not |
| 12 | default). People who do that are on their own anyway, because that's |
| 13 | what triggers bug #124041 [2]. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | In the absence of eclass-overrides in /etc/portage/repos.conf, |
| 16 | everything should be fine. Any eclasses that are intended to be |
| 17 | shared between repos can be configured by those repos via |
| 18 | layout.conf [3]. This allows for consistent distribution of metadata |
| 19 | cache, which also allows for consistent repoman results as discussed |
| 20 | in the "QA Overlay Layout support" thread [4]. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [1] |
| 23 | http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/portage.5.html#repos.conf |
| 24 | [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124041 |
| 25 | [3] http://blogs.gentoo.org/zmedico/2009/04/20/overlay_layout_conf |
| 26 | [4] |
| 27 | http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_33c61550b4ed2b7b25dd5a4110e1ec81.xml |
| 28 | |
| 29 | - -- |
| 30 | Thanks, |
| 31 | Zac |
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