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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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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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