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 1RbAQH-0003pW-7y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:28:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 182A421C17B; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:28:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B4E21C1EA for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:27:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE8491B407B; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:27:44 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:27:43 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.1.0-atsc; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux.gentoo.dev@googlegroups.com References: <201112141858.17365.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: 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; boundary="nextPart4019513.kSbzLsKm9t"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112150727.44045.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: cc76ad31-bf83-4841-919a-7c6f7fbedb0f X-Archives-Hash: e2b4e14ebafc4a53a3490922af8d129a --nextPart4019513.kSbzLsKm9t Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thursday 15 December 2011 00:39:44 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 December 2011 18:43:33 Alec Warner wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Leho Kraav wrote: > >> > i'd be really happy if someone took care of > >> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/150031 :> > >> >=20 > >> > "include more info about binpkg in file name" > >>=20 > >> That is great, but its not a 6 month project... > >=20 > > is it though ? i'm inclined to mark INVALID. hijacking filenames for > > metadata is a tuuuuuuuuuuurrible idea. >=20 > I agree. It's along the same lines as only using file extensions for > determining the filetype (and we all know how that turned out...). It > *does* have the advantage of being really fast, though. it just doesn't scale though (encoding all metadata into the filename quick= ly=20 hits filesystem limits on name length), and i think the speed increase is o= nly=20 to a limit. once you get into larger repos, using the already existing=20 "Packages" file would be faster. and since that compresses, it should scal= e a=20 lot nicer. > Nevertheless, the basic bug is about changing the distfile repository > format in such a way that a single repo can contain several distfiles > built with differing build conditions. Putting metadata in the > filename is only one way of ensuring that. sounds like the summary needs updating then by someone who has waded throug= h=20 all the followup comments ;) =2Dmike --nextPart4019513.kSbzLsKm9t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJO6ee/AAoJEEFjO5/oN/WB5qEQAJKFWRtciJD9zDmRdt0+5EKZ yHkahXFWquQn6e+Y1bkLtfmCE8P3Bbsulv+yzdJmOVtQIcswFvupihPH9qsc2UBO 4pRuHKjnUieKURWMRwgoFZGyjVmV3iw/ET3IU8MD/cfCbdnDfJHdHkVu2CL7Jf6J YE2Abg3hzK6JHHAf7SEr97xgAkG1RePM7cA4bghAYgfjuPs1gAz9uldoalupqoBJ 6MWTR0hITAgWRvMlZ4XEWCeGJVkVhgCPrRLMPnXs6qOzMXhGisk4jnJXho5JZSyD jhNFbKdMmi0AXcKYAW5yIHkrhhm3ywHrFVMrVZQqvIXRbpnoiTrw8Yspr7j9Vxe/ pKIr2m30b3+97C7nb4XThGMDJH6y2BSk4WIq1EW1pRi78AH1IqB06s5vC1SCtImY OeHcZPPQ5MI6evz492ROsx/LOqh31mAlQgaTlL6EhqWnX1Q6uJQeehrPMe2hCx1f rzvYdw+HFsn70EHuvVdnXyqgfdsLG42EyBI193Tn3BtNT5JSAEYLxoaMryPJBoHU /cygzE/MUWSp5WkpO1Hvdiz65gRL/FVFWpYe4pEDpjV1EsvlslYjqpKepF0QreK+ amCJJ9hfhI7YCXggfKZEFr9LlJJc/sUixeDj4gwdC/AhU2BRDNokA9bcJkmqUc9R sIttgIm76F4DIfefLAS5 =PEww -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4019513.kSbzLsKm9t--