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 1En6kV-0000Ol-Hi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:59:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBG3wWd8010852; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:58:32 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 jBG3ucG9012680 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:56:38 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1En6hx-0002bd-Pg for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:56:37 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1En6hs-0003i8-UO for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:56:32 +0000 Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:56:30 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support Message-ID: <20051216035630.2b005138@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <43A235AD.6030604@leetworks.com> References: <43A235AD.6030604@leetworks.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_./+iC4nOblNoWZZ4OrTvgNQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: c406e277-4651-4d30-b361-bffa2dd66cbd X-Archives-Hash: babda217830458e21d8d875ba4ab3e9a --Sig_./+iC4nOblNoWZZ4OrTvgNQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:34:05 -0500 Andrew Muraco wrote: | 2. What choices/options are on the table for this feature? The big controversy seems to be over whether repositories carry a unique identifier string (for example, in metadata/repository_id) or whether it's user-assigned. The former is clearly the more sensible option, since it lets you do things like (syntax made up): DEPEND=3D">=3Dfoo-bar/baz-2.1::ciaranmssekritrepo" which would add a restriction that only packages in ciaranmssekritrepo would be considered. This only works if the repository knows its own identifier, however... Incidentally, the ::repo syntax (or whatever) would also be useful in the world file, along with :slot. So something like: foo-bar/baz:2::ciaranmssekritrepo would tell the package manager that you want baz SLOT 2 from ciaranmssekritrepo. *shrug* But it seems the Portage guys want repository names to be user-assigned, which makes them far less useful. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_./+iC4nOblNoWZZ4OrTvgNQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDojrw96zL6DUtXhERAuTlAJwIvf6RAuKC/VUanpNm47fDx79waACdERhi KmRswFcfVbVVuRrBOZ/ey6g= =XMmZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_./+iC4nOblNoWZZ4OrTvgNQ-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list