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Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> Let's try something new. I would like to get opinions from as many |
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> people as possible about GLEP 55 and alternatives listed here in order |
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> to get some idea what the general developer pool thinks. Everyone is |
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> only allowed to post a single reply to this thread in order to make it |
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> easy to read through. The existing thread should be used for actual |
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> discussion about the GLEP and the alternatives. This should be a useful |
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> experiment to see if we can control ourselves :) |
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I was talking to Alec last night in -dev (yes, I'm still alive), and I tossed |
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out the idea of using metadata.xml instead of mangling the ebuild filename or |
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even sticking it as the first line in the ebuild (as a hashbang or something |
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gentoo-specific, for example). |
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It's nothing fully fleshed out, and I know parsing XML is about as much fun as |
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sticking your tongue into a cross-cut paper shredder, but I figured why not toss |
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it out there? |
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Add a tag like this to metadata.xml |
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<eapi pv="2.6.28.7" version="1" /> |
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pv = Package Version (incl. revision if needed). |
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v = EAPI version. |
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Other variants: |
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<eapi version="1">mips-sources-2.6.28.7</eapi> |
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<eapi pv="2.6.28.7">1</eapi> |
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and such. |
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This allows portage or whatever to associate the chosen/desired EAPI level with |
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a given ebuild version in portage (so the above examples would match |
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mips-sources-2.6.28.7.ebuild) |
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I think there's some other magic going on after metadata is updated in portage, |
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like the whole use.local.desc auto-updating. I figure something like this could |
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also be implemented, maybe even in the same way whereby a backend script parses |
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this out and create a /usr/portage/profiles/eapi.list file that links package |
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revisions with the set eapi level. Then let the various package managers do |
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whatever it is that they do to make use of this information. |
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Call it random brainstorming. No idea on the pros & cons -- I haven't even |
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looked at g55 just yet. |
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Joshua Kinard |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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kumba@g.o |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our |
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lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." |
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--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic |
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