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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] tree dependency check
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:20:32
Message-Id: 20060329172005.GA18577@nightcrawler.had1.or.comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] tree dependency check by Marius Mauch
1 On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:21:15PM +0300, Marius Mauch wrote:
2 > Marius Mauch schrieb:
3 > >So after manifest2 is in, I'll revive the other issue that IMO is a
4 > >requirement for 2.1: enforcing dependencies needed to use the tree (see
5 > >old threads or glep44 for reasoning). A patch for that is available at
6 > >dev.gentoo.org/~genone/patches/treedeps.diff. Unless somebody objects
7 > >I'll add that somewhere next week.
8 >
9 > Ok, from a discussion with Zac and a few others it seems that we should
10 > add a layer of indirection, so instead of specifying atoms the tree has
11 > a freeform version identifier, and portage can use it to look up the
12 > required atoms by using a (remote) mapping file.
13 > This new approach is implemented in
14 > dev.gentoo.org/~genone/pacthes/format-check.diff (it's basically a
15 dev.gentoo.org/~genone/patches/format-check.diff moreso...
16 ~harring

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