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On Aug 15, 2004, at 8:00 AM, Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> Apologies if this was received already |
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> On Monday 09 August 2004 02:44, Kapil Thangavelu wrote: |
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>> i wanted to try out some of the portageng and portage modifications |
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>> that |
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>> are being done in gentoo cvs.. |
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> May I ask what are your plans are? I don't wish to be intrusive, but |
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> it's not |
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> quite just yet ready widespread testing (=breaking and many reports of |
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> what I |
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> already know). |
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i was interested in working on the system, as it looked to me to be the |
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first real attempt at putting a useable api ontop of portage. and i |
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have some interest in using it for some projects instead of continuing |
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with something homebrewed. iotw. no i wasnt planning on installing it |
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and bitching about how it broke my system ;-) |
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>> however its not clear how these can be accessed.. namely i'd like to |
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>> do |
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>> anonymous checkout of |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/portage-mod/?root=gentoo-src |
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> The standard way would be to grab each file, but if you visit |
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> #gentoo-portage |
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> on irc.freenode.net, I might be able to help you further. |
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the download one file at a time is pretty lame, i'll be on the channel |
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(seems deserted) for the next few days. |
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> By the way, I prefer to not think of it as portage-ng. There is |
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> nothing new in |
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> most of it and way more code than I wanted there to be. As soon as I |
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> can |
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> proove (to myself to begin with) that what I have changed works, it'll |
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> be |
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> reintegrated with portage proper. |
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understood... just calling it like i saw it |
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thanks, |
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-kapil |
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