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Ed Grimm posted <Pine.LNX.4.60.0412052148100.5557@×××××××.iarg>, excerpted |
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below, on Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:59:17 +0000: |
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> It seems to me that maintaining the valid list should be more |
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> work than maintaining the invalid list, and if the reverse is true, |
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> there is a problem in the way we are maintaining profiles. |
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> Semantics can be argued either way; I personally feel the unix return |
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> code is the best metaphor - there's one success code, but many failure |
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> codes. A profile can be supported, unsupported, deprecated, incomplete, |
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> or broken. There's quite possibly a number of other states as well. |
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FWIW, as a user... |
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I like your error code metaphor, but would favor a single file with |
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status, valid or form of invalid, with a specific error code if the file |
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isn't there at all. |
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The reasoning is this. One can never tell where a user is going to point |
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the symlink. What if it points to /usr, for instance. |
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Having a single status file allows portage a far more intelligent error |
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than the current 'Is there a symlink at all and is it pointed to a valid |
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location?' error. We can then have multiple error codes fitting the |
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situation: |
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0/valid |
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These would be various not a valid symlink errors |
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101/no /etc/make.profile symlink |
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102/file or dir, not symlink |
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103/symlink points to non-existent file/dir |
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104/symlink points to file, not dir |
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105/incomplete, no status file, is this a portage profile dir? |
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201/Status file present but profile incomplete due to lack of other info |
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And the following warnings, overridable with an appropriate switch, for |
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testing, or temp use of a a depreciated profile, for instance |
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501/masked as known-broken, unsupported |
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502/masked for testing, unsupported |
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503/masked as depreciated, unsupported, message points to recommended |
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upgrade |
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Of course, the error code numbers would be adjusted to fit portages |
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current error code structure. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little |
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temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- |
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Benjamin Franklin |
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