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On 13/08/2015 00:21, James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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> On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:11:45 +0200 |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 12/08/2015 23:29, James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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>>> Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org> writes: |
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>>>> On 10 Aug 2015 09:17, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>>>>> Dnia 2015-08-10, o godz. 02:42:21 Mike Frysinger napisał(a): |
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>>>>>> On 10 Aug 2015 08:28, Justin (jlec) wrote: |
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>>>>>>> I like to propose to add the md5-cache into it. Which other |
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>>>>>>> files are of interest? |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> /distfiles/ |
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>>>>>> /local/ |
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>>>>>> /packages/ |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> Those directories should not be ignored. Those should not exist |
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>>>>> for a long time. |
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>>>> there's no reason people can't use these on their own system. |
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>>>> there's no reason they should be added to the git repo which means, |
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>>>> if a user opted to utilize them, they should be ignored. |
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>>> I agree and I'm not sure what mgorny is basing his statement on |
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>>> anyway. Apart from /local/, which I forget the purpose of, the |
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>>> default locations for DISTDIR and PKGDIR still seem to |
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>>> be /usr/portage/distfiles and /usr/portage/packages. I must admit |
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>>> that I'm struggling to find the logic for this in Portage but those |
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>>> are the defaults nonetheless. So why would they not exist? I'm |
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>>> certainly using them here and I would like to see them |
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>>> in .gitignore. |
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>> /usr/portage/local was the original location for the user's own |
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>> personal ebuild space - an "overlay" if you will. |
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>> /usr/portage/distfiles and /usr/portage/packages are there because |
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>> that's where ports has put them for decades, and no-one has gotten |
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>> around to changing it in portage yet. FreeBSD defines the use of /usr |
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>> very differently to what Linux users are used to. |
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>> Those dirs really should be in /var/portage, and the user's overlay |
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>> has no business being under main tree itself |
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> I didn't say they were the most appropriate locations and I agree |
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> that /var/portage is best but that doesn't change the fact that they |
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> are still the defaults. :) |
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Indeed. And it's equally true they should be git ignored. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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