Re: [gentoo-dev] herds.xml

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:54:08AM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote:
> On 6/9/06, Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >So, what would people think of moving herds.xml from gentoo/misc into
> >the portage tree, with the rationale being that local tools could use
> >that information for various useful purposes (compiling statistics,
> >doing something that I can't think of right now, whatever)?
> >
> 
> How exactly would that be performed and what negative effects would
> the change produce?

Couple of ways- either
1) actual cvs move of the file.  Changes required are updating any 
scripts relying on the existing cvs location (namely
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/herds.xml)
2) placing a copy of the file in the rsync image.  Downside, any tool 
reliant on herds.xml being in the tree will not behave perfectly for 
cvs users (they don't get the metadata directory typically).

One additional to this- the location for the file in the tree *should* 
be metadata/ - shoving it into profiles is the wrong location (it's 
not profile data, it's repo metadata).
~harring

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