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There are several cases where the information from which repository |
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(portdir, overlays, ...) a package originally came from when it was |
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installed. Currently that information isn't really available, at most |
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you can use some heuristics on environment.bz2 or comparing ebuilds |
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directly, but those methods aren't very reliable (may return both false |
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positives and false negatives). So storing the origin repo seems like a |
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good idea, qustion is how: |
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1) Save (part of) the value of $EBUILD |
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2) Save the repository name |
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3) ??? |
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Option 1) has the benefit that it would be useful from the start, but |
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the drawback that if the path of a repository changes the information |
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becomes invalid. Option 2) avoids that but would require that all |
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repositories are named to be useful. Don't know if there is another |
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option that avoids both problems. |
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If I'd had to choose I'd probably go for option 2) and encourage people |
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to name their repositories, but I'm open for suggestions to use option |
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1) or for a third option. |
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Marius |
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-- |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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