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On Monday 12 December 2005 02:43, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:32:05 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | Repositories will definitely have a unique identifier. Perhaps it |
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> | would be better to use the repository-identifing format from the |
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> | beginning so that readers are forced to be forwards-compatible? |
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> | Assuming the readers would then output the repository name, labeling |
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> | it "gentoo" should work well... |
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> *shrug* If someone creates metadata/repository_id (or whatever), I'll |
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> go with that. Otherwise, I'm not in favour of attempting to guess how |
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> the thing will be implemented. |
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Repositories will be user-labelled. However, all that readers need be |
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concerned with is how to extract the repository name from the news.unread |
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file and how to then resolve that to a directory name, regardless of how |
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repositories are implemented. |
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Even before multiple respositories are properly supported, I guarantee bugs |
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about support for this in portage overlays. With the above, we would be able |
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to add that support. Without it, all we can do is put a big CANTFIX. |
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> | > When a news item is read, its name should be removed from the |
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> | > ``news.unread`` file. News clients may add the name to a |
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> | > ``news.read`` file in the same directory with the same file format. |
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> | news.read should either be mandatory or not created at all. Should a |
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> | user change from a reader that creates and uses the file to one that |
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> | doesn't and then change back again the results will be unexpected. |
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> I'm not sure that that's the case. With a news to email forwarder, for |
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> example, it wouldn't make sense to keep track of news.read. |
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In that case, the data should probably not be in /var/lib/portage and |
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definitely not specified in the GLEP. It has nothing to do with portage (the |
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app) and isn't a requirement on readers. What if a reader wants to keep track |
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of what date an item was read on? Or any other metadata? A new file would |
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need to be created anyway due to format constrainst placed on news.read... |
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Jason Stubbs |
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