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On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 05:20:06 +0000 Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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| "* Portage must extend portageq to implement a command which |
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| returns whether or not the profile used for a given repository ID |
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| matches a certain base path (e.g. portageq profile_used |
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| default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2004.3 gentoo-x86)." |
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| Wording here is a bit unclear, I assume it's supposed to mean wether |
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| or not the (any) used profile belongs the the given repoid and is (a |
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| subprofile of) the given profile name. Using "path" here is dangerous, |
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| e.g. portageq profile_used base gentoo-x86. |
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Hm, that one needs clarifying. Do we even want it to be based upon |
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inherit path rather than filesystem path? |
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| As any substantial change results in a new news item should there be |
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| an optional "Obsoletes" header? Could be used to make sure people |
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| only see the most current version (without relying on rsync to wipe |
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| deleted files). |
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I'd really rather not. That makes writing clients a lot harder. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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