Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: app-portage/repoman/

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 12:42:09PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> Dnia 30 marca 2018 11:01:33 CEST, Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> >On 03/30/2018 01:42 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> >> Dnia 30 marca 2018 09:07:03 CEST, Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
> >napisał(a):
> >>> On 03/29/2018 10:20 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> >>>> Dnia 30 marca 2018 06:30:14 CEST, Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
> >>> napisał(a):
> >>>>> commit:     3f04d4d93d00afa5242a0c9459487c9eea7e9a6f
> >>>>> Author:     Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
> >>>>> AuthorDate: Fri Mar 30 04:18:05 2018 +0000
> >>>>> Commit:     Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
> >>>>> CommitDate: Fri Mar 30 04:30:05 2018 +0000
> >>>>> URL:       
> >>>>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3f04d4d9
> >>>>>
> >>>>> app-portage/repoman: version bump to 2.3.8
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This release adds support for plugin module systems.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> See:
> >>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Repoman-Module-specs
> >>>>> Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.27_p1, Repoman-2.3.8
> >>>>
> >>>> Please revert this immediately. This was never finished, had open
> >>> concerns that were never addressed and the added Gentoo repository
> >>> files were never subject to proper RFC/review that was requested.
> >>>
> >>> I've disabled this feature by default, and hidden it behind an
> >>> --experimental-repository-modules=<y|n> option.
> >> 
> >> That isn't going to work for me. Given that the yml files were added
> >to repository without prior discussion, and contrary to the promises
> >given by Portage team such discussion hasn't been started before
> >merging the changes to master, I'd like to request removing all those
> >files and not reintroducing them until Portage team specifies their
> >format and brings it to open discussion.
> >
> >Yeah I agree that the format really needs a proper specification. I've
> >gone ahead and removed them:
> >
> >https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f62e76a1e0202dcf55faa2b0fd9b21a1cd184dc8
> 
> Thanks. I hope this will let us start with a clean slate towards making a good format.

If there is some distro policy that this repoman enhancement violated,
that's fine and I would like to know about it, but I'm not aware of it.

If there isn't, as far as I know, there is no reason for it to be
blocked.

Thanks,

William


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