From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Em080-0006eA-Nn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:42:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBD2foiL017501; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:41:50 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBD2cpoL006443 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:38:51 GMT Received: from jj039137.ppp.dion.ne.jp ([211.4.39.137] helo=opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1Em043-0003Pg-3B for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:38:51 +0000 Received: by opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3D1EF201A48; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:39:14 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:39:14 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <20051211013550.66bfd7d2@snowdrop.home> <200512131117.30933.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <20051213022200.05b9f6a6@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051213022200.05b9f6a6@snowdrop.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512131139.14099.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: f9b16c7d-dad1-4338-bd24-c86317f3e31b X-Archives-Hash: 9c7984b1eb1c81bbc85eabf59998736d On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:22, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:17:30 +0900 Jason Stubbs > > wrote: > | So what are you going to do? I asked already but you didn't answer. > | How are you going to find $PORTDIR/metadata/news? > > At present, by using portageq with a hardcoded suffix. If in the future > Portage introduces new functionality, then clients and the > specification can easily be updated to handle said functionality. And how can that be adapted to work with overlays, completely ignoring the possibility of distinct repositories. Overlays is something that exists already and news support for them is a request that will appear as soon as news support is added. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list