Re: [gentoo-soc] [Report 6] layman improvements

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 06/27/14 22:27, Devan Franchini wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> The following progress has been made this week:
>
> 1.) layman portage sync module:
>       - Support has been added to install a repo if it
>          is specified in a repos.conf entry, but does not
>          actually exist when using the API variant of the
>          sync module.
>        - The above support will create a reposconf.xml file
>           in the user's overlay defs folder so that the user
>           can install or remove the overlay at any time.
>
> 2.) Overlay definition generator:
>       The overlay definition generator has gone through a
>       massive overhaul including support for the following:
>       - Auto-completion of extra source URLs, feed URLs
>         and homepage for overlays that belong to either
>         github.com or git.overlays.gentoo.org
>       - The ability to add a repo to an already existing
>          repos.xml file.
>       - The ability to use the class to write an overlay to
>         a file via python code (as opposed to an interactive
>         user session).
> 3.) Changes to layman's codebase:
>       - A new --storage flag has been added to specify to
>         layman where an overlay is going to be installed.
>         The flag is an optional feature and not necessary
>         to use.
>       - The way layman handles branches has also changed.
>         Users will not be able to specify branch via a tag such
>         as <branch>fubar</branch>, and the branch variable
>         will now be handled on a per source URL basis. Changes
>         will be made to the documentation to reflect this change.

What does "will now be handled on a per source URL basis" mean exactly?  
Before documenting this, let's make sure its actually going to be useful 
to people and embeddable in scripts, etc.  Can you give a better 
description of how layman will be able to select and switch between 
branches.

>
> Goals for next week:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> * Add finishing touches to portage sync module.
> * Continue to work on overlay-maker class.
> * Hopefully begin adding squashfs overlay support.
>
> As always, to anyone interested the source code and my commits can be
> found on git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/[1] or on github.com[2] on
> layman's gsoc2014 branch.
>
>    [1]http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/layman.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/gsoc2014
>    [2]https://github.com/twitch153/layman/tree/gsoc2014
>
> Hope everyone is enjoying their Summer!
>
> With regards,
>      Devan Franchini (twitch153)
>


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