Re: [gentoo-dev] NEW: split portage/repoman releases now in the tree

[Francesco Riosa]

2016-05-16 3:39 GMT+02:00 Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>:

>
> portage-2.3.0_rc1 and repoman-2.3.0_rc1 are now in the tree.
>
> portage-2.3.0_rc1 is essentially the portage 2.2.28 release with only a
> few small patches applied.  It mostly just installs less code, namely
> the repoman code.
>
> So, now servers and other systems that do not require repo Q/A ability
> will no longer get repoman installed anyway.
>
> repoman-2.3.0_rc1 is the stage2 rewrite code. The checks are now
> modular, and using the portage plugin system. The system is not yet
> fully plug and play. Those changes will take place in the stage3
> re-writes.
>
> The two packages will remain in the same portage git repo, although the
> repoman code has been moved into it's own pkg directory.  It is too
> tied into portage api's to be on it's own just yet.  An that
> is not likely to happen until we get a stable portage API.  This new
> system does allow for semi-independant releases for both repoman and
> portage.  When important API's change, it will require both to be
> release at the same time.  So you can look forward to seeing the minor
> version number to get more frequent bumps than it has this last decade.
>
> Currently, the portage ebuild does not RDEPEND on the repoman ebuild.
> You will have to explicitly emerge it for it to be installed. It has
> been suggested to add a use flag enabled RDEPEND (default on) for the
> dev profile.  I will also be adding that to the portage-9999 release
> for all profiles in the coming days.
>
> NOTES:  Repoman now depends on lxml for it's xml parsing and error
> checking along with now using metadata.xsd.  It now will report a lot
> more errors than the previous buggy code everyone has been using.
>
> I want to thank the following people for their help and contributions
> to make these releases:
>
>         Zac Medico <zmedico>
>         Alexander Bernsten <bernalex>
>         Dirkjan Ochtman <djc> for the base xml re-write code
>         Michal Gorny <mgorny> for the metadata.xsd changes
>         Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk> for the metadata.xml test ebuilds
>                 patches.
>         Mike Gilbert <floppym> for all the testing on the rewite code,
>                 and a number of gen-b0rk repo test ebuilds.
>
>         Coacher for the recent testing, bug reports and patches.
>         And anyone else I missed ;)
>
> So, please report any issues with either the ebuilds or installs, bugs,
> etc... you know the drill ;)
>
> Don't forget, please contribute more test case ebuilds to the gen-b0rk
> repo.  The better the test ebuild coverage we have, the better our Q/A
> tools (like repoman) will be and the less often things will be released
> broken.
>
> Thank you
> --
> Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
>
>
> Thank you Brian and all the persons involved