[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Manifest2 reloaded

[Marius Mauch]

So while on my way to FOSDEM I decided to do something useful with the
time and wrote a new manifest2 implementation. This has nothing to do
with the original prototype I posted a while ago, it's been written
completely from scratch.
Basically all functionality (creation, parsing, validation) is
encapsulated in the new portage_manifest.Manifest class, including
compability code to read/write old style digests.
The changes to portage.py only change the digest*() functions to use
this new class instead of handling the task themselves (exception:
digestCheckFiles() which apparently was only used internally by other
digest* functions), they should more or less behave like with the old
code. Any new code however should use the Manifest() class directly
however.
While this patch implements the basic functionality some extra stuff
that was in the old code isn't included yet:
- gpg verification
- FEATURES=autoaddcvs
- FEATURES=cvs (probably obsolete anyway)
- emerge --digest / FEATURES=digest (may or may not work)

The first should be delayed until there is some consensus how the gpg
stuff should work in the future, the others I don't see the use for.
Also I only checked portage.py for changes, so emerge/repoman/... might
still have to be fixed.
Last but not least: I did some basic testing with this and the
important stuff seems to work, but I'm quite sure the code still has a
lot of bugs/issues, and this being a core functionality it needs a
*lot* of testing, so I'd really appreciate if you could all give it a
spin (but do not commit anything to the tree without manually checking
it first).

Marius

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