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Hello Gentoo team, |
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the other SoC ideas of interest are projects #14 [1] and #25 [2]. |
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The idea is to automatically create ebuild descriptors that contain |
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metadata only. This way, server load on emerge --sync will be reduced, |
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since the ebuilds will only be fetched, if the package is about to be |
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installed. |
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In my opinion, this is the first step to take before trying to implement |
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the self-contained ebuilds. I think of them as Python eggs that contain |
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everything you need for installation (ebuild, patches, eclasses, sources). |
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Are these packaged ebuilds meant to be a replacement for the current |
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ebuilds in the long term? If so, the above mentioned reduction of server |
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load and network traffic would be diminished. Say you want to install 5 |
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packages that use the eutils.eclass, you will have to download it 5 |
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times (in a compressed archive of course). |
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A tool for creating the packaged ebuilds does not seem to cause much |
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trouble, either. What seems a bit more difficult to me, though, are the |
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changes to portage. |
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On the first glance, the rough specifications and tasks seem pretty |
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straight forward: |
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1. Create a tool that extracts an ebuild descriptor from an existing |
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ebuild (containing arch, version, dependencies, ebuild location,...) |
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2. Make portage work with the ebuild descriptors at first, then fetching |
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the required files |
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3. Create a tool that assembles an ebuild with its patches, sources, and |
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eclasses |
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4. Make portage use the assembled archives |
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However, since I have merged TWO project ideas, I surely have overlooked |
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some traps :) |
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Probably I underestimated points 2 and 4? |
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Please, share you opinions. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/soc/ideas.xml#doc_chap2_sect14 |
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/soc/ideas.xml#doc_chap2_sect25 |
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Best regards and thanks in advance |
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Michael Seifert |
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