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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: app-portage/repoman/
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:48:08
Message-Id: d6a42fe3-21e6-7b5f-520b-e9938aa4884b@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: app-portage/repoman/ by William Hubbs
1 On 03/30/2018 08:16 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 12:42:09PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
3 >> Dnia 30 marca 2018 11:01:33 CEST, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> napisał(a):
4 >>> On 03/30/2018 01:42 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
5 >>>> Dnia 30 marca 2018 09:07:03 CEST, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
6 >>> napisał(a):
7 >>>>> On 03/29/2018 10:20 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
8 >>>>>> Dnia 30 marca 2018 06:30:14 CEST, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
9 >>>>> napisał(a):
10 >>>>>>> commit: 3f04d4d93d00afa5242a0c9459487c9eea7e9a6f
11 >>>>>>> Author: Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
12 >>>>>>> AuthorDate: Fri Mar 30 04:18:05 2018 +0000
13 >>>>>>> Commit: Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
14 >>>>>>> CommitDate: Fri Mar 30 04:30:05 2018 +0000
15 >>>>>>> URL:
16 >>>>>>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3f04d4d9
17 >>>>>>>
18 >>>>>>> app-portage/repoman: version bump to 2.3.8
19 >>>>>>>
20 >>>>>>> This release adds support for plugin module systems.
21 >>>>>>>
22 >>>>>>> See:
23 >>>>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Repoman-Module-specs
24 >>>>>>> Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.27_p1, Repoman-2.3.8
25 >>>>>>
26 >>>>>> Please revert this immediately. This was never finished, had open
27 >>>>> concerns that were never addressed and the added Gentoo repository
28 >>>>> files were never subject to proper RFC/review that was requested.
29 >>>>>
30 >>>>> I've disabled this feature by default, and hidden it behind an
31 >>>>> --experimental-repository-modules=<y|n> option.
32 >>>>
33 >>>> That isn't going to work for me. Given that the yml files were added
34 >>> to repository without prior discussion, and contrary to the promises
35 >>> given by Portage team such discussion hasn't been started before
36 >>> merging the changes to master, I'd like to request removing all those
37 >>> files and not reintroducing them until Portage team specifies their
38 >>> format and brings it to open discussion.
39 >>>
40 >>> Yeah I agree that the format really needs a proper specification. I've
41 >>> gone ahead and removed them:
42 >>>
43 >>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f62e76a1e0202dcf55faa2b0fd9b21a1cd184dc8
44 >>
45 >> Thanks. I hope this will let us start with a clean slate towards making a good format.
46 >
47 > If there is some distro policy that this repoman enhancement violated,
48 > that's fine and I would like to know about it, but I'm not aware of it.
49
50 The format is definitely not fully baked, and will likely change, so I
51 think it's better to wait for it to mature some more.
52
53 > If there isn't, as far as I know, there is no reason for it to be
54 > blocked.
55
56 This is not really blocking anything, people can go ahead and use the
57 repoman --experimental-repository-modules=y option, even add it to
58 REPOMAN_DEFAULT_OPTS, and it will just work.
59 --
60 Thanks,
61 Zac

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