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

[Auke Booij]

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.

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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