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Hello, all. |
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Short summary: PMS Test Suite is a suite of tools and a test library |
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to test any of the Gentoo Package Managers for compliance against |
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the Package Manager Specification. |
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The project is running on schedule. |
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This week brought (in pms-test-suite): |
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- eclass testing API, |
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- tests for eclass metadata inheritance, |
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- fixes to ebuild metadata checks, |
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- second testing release, |
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- tests for eclass dependency inheritance. |
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Changes in gentoopm: |
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- fixed closing bashserver, |
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- autodetecting whether environment is bzipped2 or not, |
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- a new API with: |
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* PMPackage being a subclass of PMAtom, |
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* .atom, .id properties deprecated, |
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* .metadata[] deprecated, |
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* atom-like package property accessors (.key, .slot, ...), |
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* .description, .homepages, |
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- added package state to .key (installable/installed), |
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- split installable and installed packages into subclasses, |
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- added real package sorting for paludis, |
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- added .sorted property with best package sort means available, |
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- a lot of small fixes and improvements. |
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Next week should bring: |
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- some more metadata accessors -- to finally get rid of .metadata[] |
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in pmsts (or .metadata[] will be moved into pmsts), |
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- finally package grouping, |
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- still need a nice idea for RDEPEND=DEPEND fallback test, |
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- finally implement generating PM call command-line. |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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