Re: [gentoo-dev] herds.xml

[Brian Harring]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:49:58AM +1000, Daniel wrote:
> On Sunday 11 June 2006 12:50, Brian Harring wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:08:23PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 16:19 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 08 June 2006 21:08, Brian Harring wrote:
> > > > > One additional to this- the location for the file in the tree
> > > > > *should* be metadata/ - shoving it into profiles is the wrong
> > > > > location (it's not profile data, it's repo metadata).
> > > >
> > > > that is the correct location for it but we have no metadata tree
> > > > tracked in cvs
> > >
> > > How about we keep it where it is (in CVS) and simply have it added to
> > > metadata during the normal runs before sync?
> >
> > Downside to this is that any tool written to expect the file in
> > $PORTDIR now doesn't behave as well for cvs users (devs).
>
> Tools like herdstat  use the HERDS environment variable. If other
> parsers/users of herds.xml are modified to use the same HERDS then its a
> consistant win for cvs users. How many tools are there?
>
> Once herds.xml gets added to the $PORTDIR/metadata herdstat (and other
> programs) will be a lot easier to use for non-devs and budding devs.
>
> > Either solutions works for me however, mainly after the file being in
> > the tree for majority of users.
> > ~harring
>
> I'd be really happy to see it added. Since there really no objection who
> controls the staging server enough to implement this? I'm happy to write up a
> bug report but I'm not sure who to assign it to.

Well, all that's required is modification to rsync gen script; person 
to bribe is zmedico (maintainer of rsync generation scripts), or your 
favorite infra monkey.

~harring