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Sebastian Pipping wrote: |
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> Zac Medico wrote: |
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>> It shouldn't be too difficult to tweak portage so that multiple |
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>> ebuilds of the same version from different repositories are visible |
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>> to portage's dependency resolver. Currently, it uses a collection of |
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>> 3 repositories to resolve dependencies: installed, ebuild, and |
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>> binary packages. Replacing the single ebuild repository (portdbapi |
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>> class) instance with multiple instances, one for each overlay, |
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>> should produce the desired result. |
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> Sounds good. How long do you expect it to take? |
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Not long. It seems like a reasonably useful feature, so I'll go |
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ahead and try to get it done sometime during the next few days. Then |
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I'll be able to include it in the portage-2.1.7 branch which I plan |
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to create soon. You can track progress on this bug: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262038 |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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