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Hi all, |
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Since I've failed to properly communicate the move of /profiles from our |
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overlay to gentoo-x86 (ok, I blame it on a surprise commit by someone |
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else :) ) I want to share my thoughts about the two here with you before |
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taking action this time ;) |
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What basically annoys the hell out of me in the current system is that a |
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package as for instance mail-client/mutt is fully Prefix Aware(tm) in |
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gx86 -- including keywords -- but still is synced to the Prefix tree. |
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Let alone packages like gcc-apple, which are Prefix-only. |
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It also annoys me that there are two places to commit to now, as well. |
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For example, should a fix to an eclass go to gx86, or the Prefix tree? |
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As I think we'll have a transition period for a long while from now I've |
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been playing with the thought to make our lives a little bit easier by |
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allowing to eliminate duplicate packages, that is the exact same |
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version in gx86 and the Prefix tree. |
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The idea is simple, from an rsync perspective. We start "overlaying" |
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gx86, overwriting all packages in there with their Prefix tree versions |
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if existing. It takes a bit of hacking in the rsync generation scripts, |
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but I think I can get the following running: |
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- update gx86 cvs checkout |
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- rsync it without CVS dirs to the candidate image |
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- update Prefix tree svn checkout |
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- remove all packages in the candidate image which exist in the Prefix |
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tree |
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- rsync the Prefix tree without .svn dirs over the candidate image |
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- distribute the candidate image to rsync1 |
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Due to the full gx86 checkout, the generation frequency has to go down a |
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bit, as it takes a long time to update that tree, but that's details. |
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The idea here is that we can remove packages which are fully Prefix |
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Aware(tm), such as mutt, and only maintain it in gx86. This would also |
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make it easy to get it clear what's the todo list of us to merge in |
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gx86; if we have an empty tree, we're done :) (at that time we can |
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simply make the prefix rsync alias point to the gx86 rsync mirrors). |
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Thoughts? Objections? |
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-- |
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Fabian Groffen |
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