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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] gSoC add Multiple Repository support to sys-apps/portage
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:53:16 -0700
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Caleb Cushing wrote:
> The basic idea is to be able to easily use overlays (without layman).
> I believe this to be a pre-req to the "Cache Sync" idea listed on the
> wiki.
> 
> each repo should be able to have a differently defined way of sync-ing
> (within predefined standards), I think they should also be capable of
> defining the way that Manifests are handled (I don't think git needs
> more than distfile manifests, other vcs may be similar). Supported
> repository types should include rsync, git, svn, hg, bzr, darcs, cvs.
> each SYNC_METHOD should be isolated from the others in code so that
> they can be improved/extended easily.

I think this would be a great project. I've wanted to do this myself
but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
- --
Thanks,
Zac
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