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Hi All, |
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I felt the need to send out a quick development update, so here it is. Portage |
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development is going very well; I now have recursive ebuilds working; the |
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algorithms are sound, but I still need to rework the code and do some testing. |
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I've fixed numerous bugs in portage.py. These changes haven't been committed |
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yet. All in all, Portage is undergoing a dramatic change and will "feel" like |
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a whole new animal in the Portage 1.5 release. |
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Also, I've implemented the foundation of our new "system profile" support. |
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What this will mean in the near future is that virtual dependencies will be |
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resolved correctly. So, if an ebuild needs virtual/x11-web-browser to be |
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installed, it'll consult the system profile "virtual" file and resolve |
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virtual/x11-web-browser to net-www/netscape. Of course, system profiles will |
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be fully customizable so that virtual dependencies can be satisfied exactly how |
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you'd like them to be. One sentence summary: recursive pkgmerging and |
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"emerging" will work perfectly very very soon. |
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Once I get these major improvements incorporated into ebuild, we'll be almost |
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ready to release 1.0_pre4. After the release, I'd like to begin focusing more |
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on documentation, so that we're split about 50/50 between documentation |
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development and work on the Portage tree. |
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That's all for now, |
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-- |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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