From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mt1fv-0001k0-V2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:05:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D2E7E0971; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CEF2E0971 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so6707595ewy.14 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:05:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=dfQLID2OtrhCpgH+zl/o1vjltO6ymm++NVEAzoajmsE=; b=vqvM5Y+OL5rJu6AaAEXUiAYwaiRdYKnA4MBiU7649R5FqjQjkvMjLwEkT8uS8hWefL OqvmRf+iiRUHmmqcUXsnV/34QCeSCzhCEz3bdTXFxCiUyW8nLBmwzeUiWA1xhbdiQKfy q562csu6t5UhwZc96aLUT+UaQxjqQguR0bNls= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=ZI4XDCueGCPhYJ1RmUy+C8y5/1pJVfEQSug/VApeE3XvtunA2wDPBEIZGumUNecl7q gqi4GJvf6c6cE6/7FV+V+jldUvQ9WOLhXEvYBRUq8IW9RGqrUd5sbTQkPDf4yIv2o82x aSFW/8pp144N0Y+ZVrbgyyUzHjsQAZMPNiF18= Received: by 10.211.144.7 with SMTP id w7mr6988623ebn.28.1254326704365; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:05:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowcone (92-235-187-79.cable.ubr18.sgyl.blueyonder.co.uk [92.235.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm53784eyh.32.2009.09.30.09.05.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:05:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:04:57 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20090930170457.7b8d2d14@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <4AC3808D.7010205@hartwork.org> References: <4AC0FF26.4030608@hartwork.org> <20090930153906.070cf662@snowcone> <4AC37E66.5030708@hartwork.org> <20090930165340.79a93e46@snowcone> <4AC3808D.7010205@hartwork.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/DoEKOrtq.6akwYh.X.o0Mop"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: a4233e49-ad19-4b1d-9083-bf1399569121 X-Archives-Hash: eed63d005bfc3654a00cd8d038fd1dcc --Sig_/DoEKOrtq.6akwYh.X.o0Mop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:00:13 +0200 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:51:02 +0200 > > Sebastian Pipping wrote: > >> At the moment moving overlay meta info into the overlays does not > >> seem like a good idea to. It would mean that any script working > >> with overlays needs to check the repo out to get to that data. > >> That doesn't sound like fun to me. > >=20 > > No, you can copy the data into your master file. It's just that the > > original source of the data would be the repository, not the person > > adding the repository to the list. >=20 > If it can change, it needs to be kept in sync. I really don't think > it belongs in there. Sure. Just periodically fetch the repository centrally. Have a master list of sync URLs with expected repository names, and use that to generate the full master list that includes metadata. Added bonus: you can quickly remove any repository that no longer exists. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/DoEKOrtq.6akwYh.X.o0Mop Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrDgawACgkQ96zL6DUtXhEZoQCfZY/UzpdAS/Edh3Gse6oKnR/H +aEAn3yYzT8TK00+PZMdyaWJ6Qi1dchj =Qvhp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/DoEKOrtq.6akwYh.X.o0Mop--