From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywordreqs and slacking arch teams
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 11:40:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191228114008.1edf0331@symphony.aura-online.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191229002736.0d53aaa6@katipo2.lan>
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On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:27:36 +1300
Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 11:14:15 +0000
> Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <gentoo@veremit.xyz> wrote:
>
> > I know I'm gonna be shot down in flames, because $heresy, but here is where
> > a package 'database' would actually work quite well, because you can
> > trivially create a query that pulls this data out, and sorts it by package
> > category or maintainer or whatever you like ..
> >
> > Ok, let the flamewars begin ...
>
> There's no real problem with a package database, however, the real
> limitation is in the ebuild source format, which ultimately means any
> such database needs a lot of bash-sourcing hell to simply stay
> up-to-date ( any time an eclass changes, the interpretation of every
> ebuild that uses it also changes, necessitating some pretty fun(1) code )
>
> And that winds you up fighting with portage internals.
>
> So simply, in order for somebody like me to actually implement such a
> thing, a precursory step is to rewrite enough portage to do just that.
>
> But I haven't (yet) gotten around to that.
>
>
> 1: Not actually fun.
Doesn't https://packages.gentoo.org already have such a database?
Unfortunately a3li used Elasticsearch, which no one understands, but
it's a start.
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James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-28 7:09 [gentoo-dev] Keywordreqs and slacking arch teams Michał Górny
2019-12-28 9:27 ` Kent Fredric
2019-12-28 9:35 ` Fabian Groffen
2019-12-28 11:05 ` Kent Fredric
2019-12-28 11:14 ` Michael 'veremitz' Everitt
2019-12-28 11:27 ` Kent Fredric
2019-12-28 11:40 ` James Le Cuirot [this message]
2019-12-28 11:44 ` Kent Fredric
2019-12-28 11:32 ` Kent Fredric
2019-12-28 11:35 ` Michael 'veremitz' Everitt
2019-12-28 11:42 ` Kent Fredric
2019-12-28 18:05 ` Alec Warner
2019-12-29 2:19 ` Aaron Bauman
2019-12-29 5:09 ` Kent Fredric
2019-12-30 1:45 ` A Schenck
2020-01-02 20:32 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2020-01-02 23:25 ` Mike Pagano
2020-01-02 23:35 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2020-01-03 0:19 ` Michael 'veremitz' Everitt
2020-01-03 2:40 ` Aaron Bauman
2020-01-03 10:00 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2020-01-04 11:09 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2020-01-04 11:25 ` Michael 'veremitz' Everitt
2020-01-04 13:35 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2020-01-03 14:37 ` [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-03 14:40 ` Toralf Förster
2020-01-03 14:41 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-03 14:46 ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-03 14:48 ` Toralf Förster
2020-01-03 22:32 ` Michael 'veremitz' Everitt
2020-01-04 7:38 ` Hanno Böck
2020-01-04 18:39 ` William Hubbs
2020-01-04 18:41 ` Michał Górny
2020-01-07 8:52 ` Hanno Böck
2020-01-03 14:52 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-03 14:55 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-03 16:28 ` Aaron Bauman
2020-01-04 11:01 ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-04 11:42 ` Roy Bamford
2020-01-04 12:54 ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-04 13:08 ` Roy Bamford
2020-01-04 13:43 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2020-01-05 10:34 ` Roy Bamford
2020-01-04 20:13 ` Christopher Head
2020-01-04 20:39 ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-04 13:47 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2020-01-04 18:41 ` William Hubbs
2020-01-04 18:42 ` Michał Górny
2020-01-04 19:13 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2020-01-05 16:41 ` Michael Orlitzky
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