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Hi everyone, |
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Some of you may recall that I proposed the addition of multiple |
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inheritance to profiles a couple of months ago [1]. The idea is to |
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extend the "parent" file in profiles so that it supports any number |
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of parents (one per line). Parents listed closer to the bottom of |
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the file will have the ability to override the settings of those |
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listed nearer the top of file. |
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As of portage-2.1 (included in the 2006.1 release media), portage |
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will automatically generate an error if it encounters multiple |
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inheritance (earlier versions would simply ignore anything after the |
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first parent). As long as users follow the profile updating |
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instructions [2] and update portage prior to a profile update, they |
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won't have any trouble. However, if a user has <=portage-2.0* and |
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fails to follow the upgrade instructions, portage may attempt to |
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build and install packages without the entire profile being |
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correctly parsed. |
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Should we add multiple inheritance support now? The changes |
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necessary to add this support are minimal and we can have this |
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feature in portage-2.1.2 [3], which I estimate will be ready for a |
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final release in approximately 3 to 5 weeks. |
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Zac |
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[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/41453 |
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml#doc_chap3 |
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[3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147007 |
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