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Now that the whole tree has been converted to Manifest2 format we can remove the |
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old digest files from the tree so that it is pure Manifest2 format [1]. Any |
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users who still have a version of portage that doesn't support Manifest2 (less |
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than sys-apps/portage-2.1 or stages prior to 2006.1) will still be able to use a |
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script to generate the old digests if they want to upgrade an old system [2]. |
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In order to trigger removal of the old digests, all that we have to do is add a |
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file named manifest1_obsolete to the root of the repository. Presence of that |
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file causes repoman to automatically remove the old digests upon commit. If |
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people don't update their whole cvs tree then they are likely to miss this file |
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which will cause them to generate the old digest files and add them back to the |
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tree unnecessarily. If that happens then it's not a major problem but we should |
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try to make sure that everybody gets the file in order to prevent confusion. |
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After we've added the manifest1_obsolete file we can either let the old digest |
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files disappear gradually or we can actively remove them. It's possible to use |
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repoman to remove them from a single package, from a whole category, or from the |
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whole tree at once. The repoman --force option can be used to make it work |
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faster by skipping dependency checks. If we want to actively remove them then |
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the best approach is probably to use repoman to remove them from one category at |
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a time. |
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If there are no objections then I don't so any reason not to go ahead and add |
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the manifest1_obsolete sometime in the near future. Thoughts? |
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Zac |
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[1] |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0044.html#removal-of-digest-files |
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/converting-manifest2.xml |
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