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On 11/21/2015 01:36 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Hello, everyone. |
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> Currently PMS defines two variables that are being repeatedly |
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> abused to access repository data in unpredictable and breaking |
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> manners -- PORTDIR and ECLASSDIR. They both reference only |
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> so-called 'master repository', are permitted in source builds and |
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> src_* phases only. |
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> For quite some time, QA is monitoring their use and repeatedly |
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> reporting abuses and spec violations. I'd like to run a joint QA & |
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> PMS team effort in cleaning up those variables for sane |
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> multi-repository support or banning them altogether. For this |
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> reason, I would like to know your opinion. |
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> Licenses [1] ------------ |
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> So far, the most common use of ${PORTDIR} was to access the |
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> licenses subdirectory. That has a number of issues -- most |
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> importantly, it fails when the license is provided by another |
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> repository. It is also unusable in binary packages. |
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> So far I see two major possibilities here. We can either decide |
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> that: |
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> a. ebuilds don't need to access licenses directly and if they do, |
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> the licenses are usually included in distfiles or can be obtained |
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> independently of ebuild tree, or |
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> b. we provide a proper, safe mechanism for obtaining licenses that |
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> works with multiple repositories and binary packages. In |
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> particular, I was thinking of establishing a LICENSEDIR that would |
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> contain copies or symlinks to all needed licenses, both in source |
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> and binary installs. |
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> [snip] |
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I have no opinions on the others since I'm still rather inexperienced, |
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but LICENSEDIR seems like a sane solution to the licenses problem and |
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should be able to handle the multi-repo use case. |
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- -- |
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Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer |
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