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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-soc@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-soc] gSoC add Multiple Repository support to sys-apps/portage
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:53:10
Message-Id: 49CBC10C.1070902@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] gSoC add Multiple Repository support to sys-apps/portage by Caleb Cushing
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4 Caleb Cushing wrote:
5 > The basic idea is to be able to easily use overlays (without layman).
6 > I believe this to be a pre-req to the "Cache Sync" idea listed on the
7 > wiki.
8 >
9 > each repo should be able to have a differently defined way of sync-ing
10 > (within predefined standards), I think they should also be capable of
11 > defining the way that Manifests are handled (I don't think git needs
12 > more than distfile manifests, other vcs may be similar). Supported
13 > repository types should include rsync, git, svn, hg, bzr, darcs, cvs.
14 > each SYNC_METHOD should be isolated from the others in code so that
15 > they can be improved/extended easily.
16
17 I think this would be a great project. I've wanted to do this myself
18 but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
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20 Thanks,
21 Zac
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