RE: [gentoo-dev] portage database management

["Riyad Kalla" <rsk@u.arizona.edu>]

come to think of it, I thought it was all python as well....

anybody know why we thought this?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Friday [mailto:bfriday@lasierra.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 3:21 PM
> To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portage database management
> 
> 
> 
> <quote who="Alain Penders">
> > Looking at the cheer size of Ant -- all the stuff they had 
> to put in 
> > before it  became a really useful system, I'd vote against 
> trying to do
> > this for portage.   Having an XML definition for each 
> package, yes...
> > replacing the actual build  code by XML - no.
> 
> I agree as well, the example I gave earlier of a possible XML 
> package file was  based on my incorrect assumption portage 
> was python and not bash based. Not sure why I got that 
> impression, especially as I realize all the conf files have 
> bash syntax...
> 
> My general thought was this: Craft a XML file which clearly 
> identifies the sections of the current ebuild system. Once 
> this is done (again I was thinking of python or perl here not 
> bash) create a wrapper which acts as a transition layer 
> between portage and the new package XML file.
> 
> Clearly though I don't know enough about portage so please 
> forgive my past/current ignorance as I go back and read the manual.
> 
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> Brian
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