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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:27:44
Message-Id: 43A368F5.5030406@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support by Dan Meltzer
1 Dan Meltzer wrote:
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3 >>Like I said in a previous email, 'gentoo' corresponds to 'magic-chicken' in your news-magic-chicken.unread files. The news reader app gets the repo identifier from the news-*.unread files and plugs that into portageq to get the directory where the corresponding new items can be found.
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6 > uhh, isn't this kind of circular?
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8 > "It gets the repo identifier from the files in the repo..." oh wait
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12 The glep specifies /var/lib/gentoo/news/news-*.unread which are created by the portage news add-on. However, yes, it seems that we will need a new portageq query in order to enumerate the list of repo identifiers.
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14 Zac
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