Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 0042 (news) final draft

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 18:05:35 +0000
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 05:20:06 +0000 Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> | "* Portage must extend portageq to implement a command which
> | returns whether or not the profile used for a given repository ID
> | matches a certain base path (e.g. portageq profile_used
> | default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2004.3 gentoo-x86)."
> | Wording here is a bit unclear, I assume it's supposed to mean wether
> | or not the (any) used profile belongs the the given repoid and is (a
> | subprofile of) the given profile name. Using "path" here is
> dangerous, | e.g. portageq profile_used base gentoo-x86.
> 
> Hm, that one needs clarifying. Do we even want it to be based upon
> inherit path rather than filesystem path?

If this is intended to replace deprected files one day I think we want
(implementation isn't the problem one way or the other btw).

> | As any substantial change results in a new news item should there be
> | an optional "Obsoletes" header? Could be used to make sure people
> | only see the most current version (without relying on rsync to wipe
> | deleted files).
> 
> I'd really rather not. That makes writing clients a lot harder.

It does? Just requires them to parse news items upfront and then remove
all items matched by an Obsoletes header from the processing queue.
Doesn't seem so tricky.

Marius

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