From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ja43e-0001Pc-KF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:10:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFD1FE076B; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:10:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.genone.homeip.net (dslc-082-082-174-094.pools.arcor-ip.net [82.82.174.94]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF89DE076B for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:10:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.genone.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 460) id DFA3D28035; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:10:02 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8-gr0-genone_0.7 (2007-02-13) on lyta.genone.homeip.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=7.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8-gr0-genone_0.7 Received: from sheridan (unknown [192.168.0.40]) by mail.genone.homeip.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 9951628011 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:10:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:12:42 +0100 From: Marius Mauch To: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-qa] splitting up package.mask Message-Id: <20080314081242.d3633131.genone@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <47D9EA1D.5070602@gentoo.org> References: <47D9EA1D.5070602@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d150fd36-6c6a-4bb1-b342-693db395422b X-Archives-Hash: 2f25e281d3d3aaa558821ffb70d8621e On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:59:41 -0600 Steve Dibb wrote: > Hey guys, > > I have an idea I'd like to run by the QA team. > > For a user's portage preferences, we can have /etc/package.mask be a > file or a directory of files (package.mask/*) that will cumulatively > create the same effect. > > Because package.mask in CVS for profiles is so huge, I think it might > help it to get organized if we split it up a bit. > > halcyon had a good idea for the scheme: testing, broken, removal. > That seems to sum up the main 3 reason that a package would be masked. > > Right now there are 679 entries in package.mask. The reason I came > up with the idea was to find a way to make it easier for treecleaners > to quickly see which ones they were working on. > > I'd like to take the discussion to -dev but wanted to get QA's > thoughts first. I haven't looked into whether or not this is > technically feasible at all. Well, portage supports this since 2.1 and older versions haven't been supported for quite some time already, but don't know about other PMs, so depends if you want to risk breaking them. Marius -- gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org mailing list