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Zac Medico wrote: |
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> Some of you may recall that I proposed the addition of multiple |
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> inheritance to profiles a couple of months ago [1]. The idea is to |
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> extend the "parent" file in profiles so that it supports any number |
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> of parents (one per line). Parents listed closer to the bottom of |
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> the file will have the ability to override the settings of those |
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> listed nearer the top of file. |
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> As of portage-2.1 (included in the 2006.1 release media), portage |
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> will automatically generate an error if it encounters multiple |
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> inheritance (earlier versions would simply ignore anything after the |
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> first parent). As long as users follow the profile updating |
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> instructions [2] and update portage prior to a profile update, they |
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> won't have any trouble. However, if a user has <=portage-2.0* and |
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> fails to follow the upgrade instructions, portage may attempt to |
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> build and install packages without the entire profile being |
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> correctly parsed. |
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> |
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> Should we add multiple inheritance support now? The changes |
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> necessary to add this support are minimal and we can have this |
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> feature in portage-2.1.2 [3], which I estimate will be ready for a |
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> final release in approximately 3 to 5 weeks. |
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Are you proposing just adding the support or creating the new profiles as well? |
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If it's just the support, adding it into portage now certainly won't hurt |
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anything (unless someone really fscks up the current single-parent cascaded |
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profiles in the tree) and is probably a good idea. |
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If you're talking about putting together the new profiles now as well, is it |
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going to be a separate profile tree (much as default-linux/ was created for |
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cascaded profiles)? Will it be directly under profiles/? default-linux/? |
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