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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 08:59:10
Message-Id: 200512241757.30414.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:58, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:50:33 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
3 >
4 > wrote:
5 > | SLOT is currently an arbitrary string (without spaces) so general
6 > | matching of "*" might be useful. Of course, there's no restriction of
7 > | not using "*" in SLOTs at the moment either...
8 >
9 > *shrug* SLOT will have to be tightened up anyway. Otherwise
10 > SLOT="[foo]" will cause terrible confusion.
11
12 Heh. Yep, that's another one. Checking with a quick script, it seems that
13 there are 478 unique SLOTs and the regex [a-zA-Z0-9\._\-]* matches them all.
14 Perhaps it would be worthwhile locking it down to those characters in repoman
15 in preparation? Anybody see a need for characters beyond those?
16
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18 Jason Stubbs
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>