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 1EnHPo-0001gN-5q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:22:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBGFLMqb006440; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:21:22 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 jBGFJ5W3025809 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:19:06 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 1EnHMP-0002Ab-BO for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:19:05 +0000 Received: by opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 27175201A4A; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:19:42 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:19:41 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <43A235AD.6030604@leetworks.com> <20051216054509.469b7d95@snowdrop.home> <43A25764.4020900@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <43A25764.4020900@egr.msu.edu> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512170019.42011.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 7a8b2351-ea31-49c0-ba15-819302a509ed X-Archives-Hash: ad8ae22f4ac735c481ee403ef6de3279 On Friday 16 December 2005 14:57, Alec Warner wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:36:54 -0500 Alec Warner > > > > wrote: > > | emerge blar --repo=ciaranmssekritrepo > > | > > | This accomplishes the same thing, except I get to name the repo > > | whatever I wish, and you lose the ability to specify repositories in > > | DEPEND. > > > > ...and it stops you from being able to package.mask things in a given > > repository, > > Ideally there will be per-repo package.mask entries as well, since .mask > files are typically repository-based. Exactly. > > and it stops you from being able to stick to a given > > repository for world entries, and it stops you from being able to use > > /var/lib/portage/world sucks on the whole. The plan is to tag what repo a package came from into the installed package database if I understand correctly. > > it in all those zillion other locations where you can currently use a > > dep atom to do something useful. > > Anything in particular other than "those other useful things"? On Friday 16 December 2005 12:56, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > DEPEND=">=foo-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... I don't see the need for this. Resolution will the same repository to satisfy a package's dependencies where possible. If you just want to be able to state that a package from one repository needs packages from a different repository, wouldn't something like REPO_URI="mirror://gentoo/repo" suffice just as well without making a mess of the atom syntax? -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list