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Hi. |
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Sebastian Pipping wrote: |
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> Hello! |
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> Intro |
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> For the gentoo-specific part of smolt [1] that's in the making we |
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> collect stats on what package is installed and what overlay it comes |
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> from. Which tree/overlay it came from is determined by reading file |
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> /var/db/pkg/${CATEGORY}/${PF}/repository. The name in there comes |
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> from file profiles/repo_name originally. |
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> In smolt we match repo names from the 'repository' file against |
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> overlay names from layman-global.txt to check if an overlay is known |
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> worldwide or could be a secret overlay that we should not submit |
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> information about. |
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> Problem |
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> When the name from repo_name and the overlay name in layman-global.txt |
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> do not match smolt would assume the overlay is secret though it's not |
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> and not be able to send in stats about it. |
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I understand your problem and agree that in general having the repo_name |
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and the name in layman-global.txt the same would be helpful. |
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However, there might be some history behind that. |
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For example, although the official KDE team overlay is called kde |
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(repo_name), on layman it still shows up as kde-testing. The reason for |
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that is historic as kde was already used by genkdesvn. |
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> Examples: |
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> oss-overlay != majeru |
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> pro-audio != proaudio |
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> Proposal |
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> - Make repo_name file fit layman-global.txt entry where it doesn't |
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> match at the moment |
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> - People with that overlay installed do not have to change |
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> anything, no "where did that overlay go" mails or aynthing |
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> - Upstream needs to be convinced to fix it |
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> - For packages installed from that overlay the file |
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> 'repository' will not update until the a re-installation |
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> - Make in-sync repo_name a requirement for extending |
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> layman-global.txt |
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> Sebastian |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org |
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Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE |
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