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From: Weeve <weeve@g.o>
To: Gentoo Core Mailing List <gentoo-core@g.o>
Cc: Gentoo Dev Mailing List <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] ANNOUNCEMENT: metadata.xml files can be created
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 18:26:52
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.53.0307021425250.7212@stargazer.weeve.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] ANNOUNCEMENT: metadata.xml files can be created by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2
3 > On Wednesday 02 July 2003 19:24, Weeve wrote:
4 > > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Weeve wrote:
5 > > > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
6 > > > > The dtd can be found at http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd.
7 > > > > I request that all developers go and add metadata.xml files to the
8 > > > > packages they maintain. Further herds should be created. They need to
9 > > > > be registered to.
10 > > >
11 > > > What is the prodecure(s) for creating and registering a herd?
12 > >
13 > > Sorry for the sorta dupe-post, my mail client and I weren't on the same
14 > > page.
15 >
16 > Registering is writing them in the misc/herds.xml file of the gentoo CVS
17 > repository. Creating actually is the same.
18 >
19 > For now the best procedure is if the people to be part of a herd go and
20 > register their herd in that file.
21
22 OK cool. Now for the next question. If I add a metadata.xml file to a
23 package I maintain, leaving the herd as no-herd (using skel.metadata.xml
24 as a template), does this cause anything to break?
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