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Hello, |
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I am currently interested in working on implementing a better way to work |
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SCM ebuilds into gentoo. Looking at the description, I just wanted to |
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clarify a few things. |
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First of, it seems that this daemon will run on a privileged machine that is |
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capable of uploading files into the gentoo infrastructure, but it also has |
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to deal with no official ebuilds. This does seem rather paradoxical to me. |
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Or is it located on the users machine, and then only downloads these |
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snapshots? |
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Secondly, I understand this as a way to have a mirror periodically check the |
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upstream repository for changed, and then respond by notifying the |
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maintainer. Ebuilds will be left using these snapshots, which seems like a |
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rather small improvement over the current system. |
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Or is this a system where the daemon sits in the in the infrastructure and |
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creates the snapshot automatically once an ebuild is provided, and maybe |
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even then automatically creates new versioned snapshots and ebuilds based on |
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the new versions of the source code, and places these on the master mirror |
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to be distributed. Maybe with some sort of maintainer having to sign of on |
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the new version though? |
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And thirdly, there is currently no mentor for this project. Would anyone be |
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interested in working with me on this? |
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Also, I was interested in the “Tags” idea. It does seem rather simple to |
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implement these into the ebuilds as just a TAGS variable, and parsing should |
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not be a too big challenge, but I was wondering how this would tie into |
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existing search options. Would we add an -T option to search through tags? |
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Would the AND keyword trigger a tag search, or should any word in the search |
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string be matched against the tags as well as the package name? |
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Thanks in advance to any clarification, |
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Nils Schlupp |