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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Package compression header for binhosts
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:18:49
Message-Id: 20100601051608.GD19306@hrair
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Package compression header for binhosts by Zac Medico
1 On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:32:34PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > In order to support alternative compression types for binhost
5 > packages, I was thinking about adding support for a header field in
6 > the Packages index file. For example, a header line like
7 > "PACKAGE_EXTENSION: txz" could be used to indicate that clients
8 > should download files with txz extensions instead of tbz2
9 > extensions. I'm planning to add support for both tgz [1] and txz
10 > extensions.
11 >
12 > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142579
13
14 1) requires a version header bump
15 2) a header alone isn't useful unless it's specifiable per cpv entry;
16 thus it must be inheritable
17 3) PACKAGE_EXTENSION is overly verbose and unclear it's specifying
18 the compressor too; it's intention is for compression, state it as
19 such (I mention this in light of URI's existance where
20 PACKAGE_EXTENSION would only be a hint of compressor)
21
22 Re: #1, there is a decent set of optimizations I'm kicking around in
23 pkgcore for the next version- a discussion should probably be started
24 there.
25
26 Offhand, having a compression specific header (a simple enumeration
27 of known compressors) and a DEFAULT_URI that is python string
28 interpolation assembled (for example,
29 DEFAULT_URI="%(host)s/%(category)s/%(pf)s.txz") seems wiser. Via
30 doing what I'm suggesting, it would be possible to do binpkg
31 repository 'views' w/out having to map each binpkg into the url space
32 for it.
33
34 ~harring

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