Re: [gentoo-soc] Multiple Repository Support in Portage - Week 3

[Brian Dolbec]

On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 19:42 +0200, Auke Booij wrote:
> Paludis actually puts the repository name after the package, for
> example app-portage/eix::gentoo. Is there any specific reason you
> decided to do it your way? I don't know how pkgcore does this, btw,
> just interested to hear your reasoning.
>
> tulcod.


Yes pkgcore is the same repo syntax as paludis.  So why mess with a
standard the other 2 package mangers have had for a few years already?
It'll be confusing as hell for users trying to figure out and keep
straight between PM's and forum postings saying one way, then another.
Also for someone like me coding a gui frontend it means having 2
different code blocks to do the same thing, one for each syntax style :(

>
> 2010/6/15 Otávio Pontes <otaviobp@×××××.com>:
> > Hi,
> > Last week i was working with adding to portage support for emerging
> > packages from one specific repository.
> > Atom class was modified to support a new field, with repository name.
> > Now before package category it is possible to add a repository name
> > followed by '::'.
> > So emerge gentoo::app-portage/eix is the eix from repository gentoo.
> > Atom class is already working, but emerge is still ignoring this
> > repository name.
> > It was also necessary to change other places in portage because slot
> > separator is ':' and portage was getting confused when atom has '::'.
> > This week work will be to use this atom information in portdbapi and
> > in the dependency resolver to use ebuilds from the specified
> > repository.
> >
> > Otávio
> >
> >
>


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Brian Dolbec <brian.dolbec@×××××.com>