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Hello everyone, |
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This week the following progress has been made: |
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1.) Centralization of archive overlay type code: |
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- Due to most archive overlay types being so |
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similar, I centralized the majority of the code |
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in order to allow all archive overlay types to |
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subclass from one main ArchiveOverlay class, |
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allowing for easier maintainability. |
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2.) Multiple description field support: |
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- https://bugs.gentoo.org/465730 discusses |
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the fact that layman does not support multiple |
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description fields, but could possibly need to. |
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- The support has been added but isn't complete |
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because the current method doesn't take into |
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account the lang attribute of the description tag, |
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this will be addressed. |
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3.) Changes to the overlay-maker class: |
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- github.com and git.overlays.gentoo.org https:// |
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source URLs are now supported in the overlay |
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creation. |
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- On a successful write the user will be notified of |
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write path of the overlay.xml file. |
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4.) An Interactive session has been added for unofficial |
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overlay installs: |
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- A configurable feature has been added to notify the |
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user if they are installing an overlay that is not official. |
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5,) CLI improvements: |
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- The --setup_help flag has been renamed to --setup-help |
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- Support for multiple arguments to one action flag has been |
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added. Users can now perform actions as so: |
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"layman -a <ovl 1> <ovl 2>..." |
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6.) Ability to disable or enable overlays: |
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- If a user wants portage to ignore the ebuilds of a certain |
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overlay without deleting the overlay they can simply run |
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"layman -D <ovl>" to have the overlay disabled. They can |
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then run "layman -E <ovl>" to re-enable that overlay so portage |
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can find the ebuilds yet again. |
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- This is currently only supported for make.conf. I hope to add |
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repos.conf support eventually. |
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7.) Small improvements have been made to layman's codebase: |
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- layman will now take into account if the user is using more than |
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one repo configuration method when handling the success or failure. |
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This will prevent layman reporting False negatives. |
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- layman will now correctly inform a user if an overlay is supported when |
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running "layman -v -i <ovl>". |
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Goals for next week: |
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* Begin working on a two week long quest to migrate the docstring tests to a |
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full test suite. |
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I apologize for the long progress report. :) |
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As always, to anyone interested the source code and my commits can be |
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found on git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/[1] or on github.com[2] on |
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layman's gsoc2014 branch. |
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[1]http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/layman.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/gsoc2014 |
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[2]https://github.com/twitch153/layman/tree/gsoc2014 |
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With regards, |
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Devan Franchini (twitch153) |
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