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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fq0al-0002RL-20 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:33:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5D4VetO007764; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:31:40 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [216.148.227.153]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5D4ReT3025589 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:27:41 GMT Received: from nightcrawler (c-24-21-135-117.hsd1.or.comcast.net[24.21.135.117]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP id <20060613042739m13001qec5e>; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:27:39 +0000 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:27:20 -0700 From: Brian Harring To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] herds.xml Message-ID: <20060613042719.GC9647@nightcrawler> References: <20060608232314.GA8060@dst.grantgoodyear.org> <1149887304.22473.169.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20060611025026.GA12419@nightcrawler> <200606131149.59676.dragonheart@gentoo.org> 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; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rJwd6BRFiFCcLxzm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200606131149.59676.dragonheart@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 37765dc7-54c4-4945-9083-a240ec3de430 X-Archives-Hash: 5afd17e227b5e2ec6d04fd32d5160c74 --rJwd6BRFiFCcLxzm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:49:58AM +1000, Daniel wrote: > On Sunday 11 June 2006 12:50, Brian Harring wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:08:23PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 16:19 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > On Thursday 08 June 2006 21:08, Brian Harring wrote: > > > > > 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). > > > > > > > > that is the correct location for it but we have no metadata tree > > > > tracked in cvs > > > > > > How about we keep it where it is (in CVS) and simply have it added to > > > metadata during the normal runs before sync? > > > > Downside to this is that any tool written to expect the file in > > $PORTDIR now doesn't behave as well for cvs users (devs). >=20 > Tools like herdstat use the HERDS environment variable. If other=20 > parsers/users of herds.xml are modified to use the same HERDS then its a= =20 > consistant win for cvs users. How many tools are there? >=20 > Once herds.xml gets added to the $PORTDIR/metadata herdstat (and other=20 > programs) will be a lot easier to use for non-devs and budding devs. >=20 > > Either solutions works for me however, mainly after the file being in > > the tree for majority of users. > > ~harring >=20 > I'd be really happy to see it added. Since there really no objection who= =20 > controls the staging server enough to implement this? I'm happy to write = up a=20 > bug report but I'm not sure who to assign it to. Well, all that's required is modification to rsync gen script; person=20 to bribe is zmedico (maintainer of rsync generation scripts), or your=20 favorite infra monkey. ~harring --rJwd6BRFiFCcLxzm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEjj6nvdBxRoA3VU0RAqiDAJ9e7BXFX94NdkCPyZKeJo6m+1SCdQCgtKjH 2OiUpR05sgeSoFuc7LJPMq4= =AF/f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rJwd6BRFiFCcLxzm-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list