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On 27/08/2020 12:37, Max Magorsch wrote: |
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> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:10 PM Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Any plans on using the remoteid from metadata.xml ? |
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>> It's likely to be much more accurate since people have been filling |
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>> those manually for some time now ;) |
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> I think we could use the remoteid in future to improve the repology |
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> warnings. However, I am not fully convinced that we can completely |
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> replace the repology check using the remoteid, as a simple grep shows, |
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> that currently 9873 packages contain at least one remote id. That's |
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> just half of our packages in the tree. So I could imagine that we do |
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> use the remoteid whenever it is available and otherwise fall back on |
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> the repology data. However, for this to work we would need to things |
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> imo: |
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> 1) Get the latest version available given the remoteid |
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> 2) Compare the latest version available with our latest version |
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> It's especially the second part that I think is not done that quickly. |
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> However, if anyone is interested in coming up with some logic / code |
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> for this, any contributions are highly welcome. |
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Another cool addition, thanks :) |
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While we're on the topic of remoteid, could you please add links for |
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those somewhere in the package page? |
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I opened a bug for this a long time ago and I think it would be a nice |
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addition to the HOMEPAGE URL: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/657018 |
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