Re: [gentoo-soc] Fwd: Multiple Repository Support in Portage - Week 1 and 2

[Brian Dolbec]

On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 21:13 -0300, Otávio Pontes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writting my progress report for weeks 1 and 2.
> My version of Portage is already loading repositories from repos.conf
> and it’s still loading overlays from PORTDIR_OVERLAY. PORTDIR is still
> the main repository, but it’s not necessary to set it in make.conf.
> You can set that in repos.conf. I would like to change that, so we
> will no longer need a main repository, but i think it will be too much
> work, because PORTDIR variable is used all over portage code. PORTDIR
> and PORTDIR_OVERLAY variables are updated with information loaded from
> repos.conf, so it was easy to fix portage and other tools should work
> without any changes.
>
> It's possible to set priorities for all repositories, even PORTDIR and
> overlays, in repos.conf. The _local_repo_config class was replaced by
> RepoConfigLoader and the code that used it in portdbapi is now using
> directly this class. Treemap and _repository_map dicts in Portdbapi
> are also no longer necessary because they are already defined in
> RepoConfigLoader. So they are no longer created in portdbapi.


Please keep them updated for now as they are used by consumer apps
either directly or indirectly.  It will require deprecation time to
migrate to the new system.  We will be implementing a new public API in
portage that can be used as the primary access for consumer apps, but it
will take time as it has not been coded yet, but will be in the next
while.  It will also need to be connected to your new repo support.

>
> My code is available in
> git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/portage-multirepo.git or in
> overlays.gentoo gitweb.
>
> --
> Otávio Pontes
>


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