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For reference, I'm quoting this snippet from earlier in the thread: |
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Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> On Sunday 11 December 2005 10:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>.. Note:: Future changes to Portage involving support for multiple |
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>>repositories may require one news list per repository. Assuming |
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>>repositories have some kind of unique identifier, this file could be named |
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>>``news-repoid.unread``. |
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> Repositories will definitely have a unique identifier. Perhaps it would be |
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> better to use the repository-identifing format from the beginning so that |
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> readers are forced to be forwards-compatible? Assuming the readers would then |
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> output the repository name, labeling it "gentoo" should work well... |
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:11:51 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | newsdir="$(portageq envvar PORTDIR)/metadata/news" |
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> | newsdir="$(portageq newsdir gentoo)" |
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> | Both have one level of indirection. The first has two hard coded |
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> | elements. The first has one. Where is the massive over-indirection? |
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> | The second allows future changes. The first does not. Where does the |
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> | specification come into it? All that would be needed is to allow a |
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> | user a method to name overlays and it'd be useful straight off the |
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> | bat. |
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> The former relies upon existing, widely used functionality together |
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> with a well-defined path. The latter has some magic hard-coded name |
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> voodoo (what's a 'gentoo'?) and is still stuck only supporting a single |
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> location. |
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Apparently, 'gentoo' is meant to be the identifier for the official gentoo repository (portage tree). It corresponds to 'magic-chicken' below. |
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Whenever relevant unread news items are found, the package manager will create a |
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> file named ``/var/lib/gentoo/news/news-magic-chicken.unread`` (if it does not |
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> already exist) and append the news item identifier (eg |
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> ``2005-11-01-yoursql-updates``) on a new line. |
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Zac |
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