Re: [gentoo-dev] Identifying inherit-only / usable profiles (round 2)

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:56 -0500, Aaron Walker wrote:
> Isn't profiles.desc just a list of *default* profiles though?  We want a list
> of all valid profiles.  So I think we should either extend profiles.desc to
> contain all valid profiles, or add a new file.

Either way would be fine by me, but portage would have to be modified to
allow for multiple profiles to be listed per arch in profiles.desc

> Looking at profiles.desc did make me realize something though.  If we do
> decided to do a separate file, I think we should list the arch as well along
> side the profile, kind of like profiles.desc does.  This would allow us to get
> a list of all valid profiles for a certain arch.
> 
> In the case that I need this for (the eclectic profiles module), it'd be much
> better IMO to be able to show valid profiles for a certain arch since a valid
> profile for sparc is obviously not a valid profile for x86.
> 
> Having a format of something like:
> 
> alpha	default-linux/alpha/2004.3
> alpha	default-linux/alpha/2005.0
> ...
> x86	default-linux/x86/2004.3
> ...
> 
> would be ideal IMO.
> 
> comments?

WORKSFORME

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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