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On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 23:57, Brian Dolbec <brian.dolbec@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 21:13 -0300, Otávio Pontes wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I am writting my progress report for weeks 1 and 2. |
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>> My version of Portage is already loading repositories from repos.conf |
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>> and it’s still loading overlays from PORTDIR_OVERLAY. PORTDIR is still |
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>> the main repository, but it’s not necessary to set it in make.conf. |
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>> You can set that in repos.conf. I would like to change that, so we |
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>> will no longer need a main repository, but i think it will be too much |
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>> work, because PORTDIR variable is used all over portage code. PORTDIR |
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>> and PORTDIR_OVERLAY variables are updated with information loaded from |
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>> repos.conf, so it was easy to fix portage and other tools should work |
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>> without any changes. |
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>> It's possible to set priorities for all repositories, even PORTDIR and |
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>> overlays, in repos.conf. The _local_repo_config class was replaced by |
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>> RepoConfigLoader and the code that used it in portdbapi is now using |
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>> directly this class. Treemap and _repository_map dicts in Portdbapi |
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>> are also no longer necessary because they are already defined in |
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>> RepoConfigLoader. So they are no longer created in portdbapi. |
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> Please keep them updated for now as they are used by consumer apps |
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> either directly or indirectly. It will require deprecation time to |
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> migrate to the new system. We will be implementing a new public API in |
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> portage that can be used as the primary access for consumer apps, but it |
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> will take time as it has not been coded yet, but will be in the next |
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> while. It will also need to be connected to your new repo support. |
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My intention is to keep compatibility with odl versions of portage. |
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All variables were kept with their values updated. The only variable |
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that was removed is _local_repo_conf and _local_repo_conf_path. |
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Maybe it's a good idea to keep them too. |
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>> My code is available in |
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>> git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/portage-multirepo.git or in |
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>> overlays.gentoo gitweb. |
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>> -- |
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>> Otávio Pontes |
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> -- |
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> Brian Dolbec <brian.dolbec@×××××.com> |
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