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On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:07:56 +0100 |
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Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hey, |
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> IIRC we (=Gentoo as a whole) pretty much agreed to drop the digest |
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> files in favor of a extended Manifest format. Well, today I wrote some |
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> initial code for this new format, you can find the result in the |
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> attachment. It's far from complete, but most basic stuff seems to work |
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> with some restrictions: |
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> - `ebuild foo digest` works if you have all SRC_URI files for the |
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> package (= all ebuilds of that package), however it will not verify |
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> the Manifest before overwriting it. Also it currently won't create |
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> the old digests (digestgen is a bit nasty). |
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> - `emerge foo` should also work (thankfully the parsing could be |
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> implemented in a simple compat layer) |
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> - repoman will likely have problems (didn't touch it yet) |
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> - I didn't add al the fancy exception handling and cvs code (which IMO |
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> shouldn't be in portage itself but repoman) |
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> Opinions about adding Manifest2 support to the next "minor" version |
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> (2.2.0 or 2.0.54 or 2.1.0 or ...)? |
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Might help if I actually attach the patch. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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