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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] herds.xml
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:55:29
Message-Id: 20060611025026.GA12419@nightcrawler
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] herds.xml by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:08:23PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 16:19 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Thursday 08 June 2006 21:08, Brian Harring wrote:
4 > > > One additional to this- the location for the file in the tree *should*
5 > > > be metadata/ - shoving it into profiles is the wrong location (it's
6 > > > not profile data, it's repo metadata).
7 > >
8 > > that is the correct location for it but we have no metadata tree tracked in
9 > > cvs
10 >
11 > How about we keep it where it is (in CVS) and simply have it added to
12 > metadata during the normal runs before sync?
13
14 Downside to this is that any tool written to expect the file in
15 $PORTDIR now doesn't behave as well for cvs users (devs).
16
17 Either solutions works for me however, mainly after the file being in
18 the tree for majority of users.
19 ~harring

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Re: [gentoo-dev] herds.xml Daniel <dragonheart@g.o>