From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E69BF1381F3 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:15:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F5F621C00F; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:15:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE3E7E0441 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:14:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiocik.lan (unknown [213.241.61.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 018DA33DA0A; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:14:53 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:14:54 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBHw7Nybnk=?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: tampakrap@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Permission to add a dummy package in tree Message-ID: <20121212191454.0006f1d6@pomiocik.lan> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.14; 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-SHA256; boundary="Sig_/P8pbWWcYI4SG_ih3jJuDUC3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 26efe472-0d02-4f36-a81f-c5173eb45f86 X-Archives-Hash: e5cdc8dd25c7a5b2ff60239de643a4af --Sig_/P8pbWWcYI4SG_ih3jJuDUC3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:07:09 +0100 Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > these days I am working on a puppet module for portage. For testing I > have created a dummy package which can be found here [1]. The package > installs files based on useflags, and it comes in stable, testing and > hardmasked versions, plus it has some useflag changes between > versions. With this package I can make sure that the puppet provider > does its various operations fine. I'm about to start writing unit > tests for that provider, and I would like to use that package for the > testing. It would be preferred to move that package in tree though. > Since the ebuilds are useless for everybody else, and maybe violate > policy about the stable tree, I'd like to know if there are any > objections to move it to tree. If there are none, I'll move it in one > month >=20 > [1] https://github.com/gentoo-el/overlay/tree/master/app-misc/dummy To be honest, I don't mind having dummy packages in the tree. I would be happy to convert gentoopm sometime to use them instead of relying on random packages to match its criteria. However, I'd rather see them in a special category, and preferably prefixed with 'gentoo-' to make it least possible for any kind of name collisions. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --Sig_/P8pbWWcYI4SG_ih3jJuDUC3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQEIAAYFAlDIyaIACgkQfXuS5UK5QB1NrAQArqlrGZPTnGJ/7Iiz/GgRquNo NrUS06/DXXEZYkukq8Vg4gPZXvZmmf9xdaSlVRF2MB11iOm0DgCJPGfEEqQneVzZ qIAbENO7W4EcNBFB799pk64znL1VeHWaNi/P1ku3I0fbWAQWGJR86wZ3o5BV5EzV WJFc7LeX6ZtTu7y+QM8= =r3F+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/P8pbWWcYI4SG_ih3jJuDUC3--