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).

Tools like herdstat  use the HERDS environment variable. If other 
parsers/users of herds.xml are modified to use the same HERDS then its a 
consistant win for cvs users. How many tools are there?

Once herds.xml gets added to the $PORTDIR/metadata herdstat (and other 
programs) will be a lot easier to use for non-devs and budding devs.

> Either solutions works for me however, mainly after the file being in
> the tree for majority of users.
> ~harring

I'd be really happy to see it added. Since there really no objection who 
controls the staging server enough to implement this? I'm happy to write up a 
bug report but I'm not sure who to assign it to.

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Daniel Black <dragonheart@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Crypto/dev-embedded/Forensics/NetMon