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I'd like to see the portage tree mechanism be more modular such that |
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it's easy to "subscribe" to more than one portage tree source. |
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For example I've been hacking around with zeroconf and currently I tell |
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people to fetch packages from the Gentoo bugzilla and dump them in their |
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portage overlay tree. |
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I'd rather be able to tell them to run: |
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# echo rsync://example.com/zeroconf-stuff > |
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/usr/portage/zeroconf-stuff.source |
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# emerge sync |
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and then portage would notice the new source file and sync to |
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/usr/portage/zeroconf-stuff/ . |
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It would be nice if gentoo supported sync mechanisms other than |
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cvs/rsync. Being able to download a tar.bz2 via http/ftp and unpack it |
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in the right place would be nice for those people who want to maintain |
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their own portage tree but don't have the means to set up a rsync server |
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but can put a tarball online somewhere. |
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Sandy McArthur |
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