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Curtis Napier wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:34:05 -0500 Andrew Muraco <tuxp3@×××××××××.com> |
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>> wrote: |
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>> | 2. What choices/options are on the table for this feature? |
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>> The big controversy seems to be over whether repositories carry a |
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>> unique identifier string (for example, in metadata/repository_id) or |
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>> whether it's user-assigned. The former is clearly the more sensible |
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>> option, since it lets you do things like (syntax made up): |
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>> DEPEND=">=foo-bar/baz-2.1::ciaranmssekritrepo" |
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>> which would add a restriction that only packages in ciaranmssekritrepo |
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>> would be considered. This only works if the repository knows its own |
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>> identifier, however... |
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>> Incidentally, the ::repo syntax (or whatever) would also be useful in |
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>> the world file, along with :slot. So something like: |
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>> foo-bar/baz:2::ciaranmssekritrepo |
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>> would tell the package manager that you want baz SLOT 2 from |
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>> ciaranmssekritrepo. |
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>> *shrug* But it seems the Portage guys want repository names to be |
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>> user-assigned, which makes them far less useful. |
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> This functionality would come in very very handy. Would user assigned |
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> repository names be able to mimic this functionality somehow? |
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What about giving each repo an identifier? That way repos with ebuilds |
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can have the repo_id in the ebuilds and not have to worry, repo_ids |
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would take precedence when in conflict. Identifiers would just be |
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provided for user-stuff, like ex # emerge sync MyRepo or # emerge -av |
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MyRepo://foo ? [foo being the name of a package in repo tree with the |
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identifier of MyRepo] |
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what about having a portage config file |
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/etc/portage/repositories: |
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priority MyRepo,gentoo |
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repository { |
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identifer = "gentoo" |
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rsync= "rsync://../" |
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repo_path= "/usr/portage" |
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} |
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repository { |
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identifer = "MyRepo" |
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rsync= "rsync://../" |
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repo_path= "/usr/MyRepoTree" |
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} |
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(an example for someone that wants to have MyRepo be prefered over |
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gentoo tree) |
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Just tossing out ideas, |
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Andrew Muraco |
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