Re: [gentoo-dev] Identifying inherit-only / usable profiles (round 2)

[Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@gentoo.org>]

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Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 07 March 2005 01:42 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> 
>>Well, since nobody objected, I'm going to add this to portage after the
>>release.  I'm probably only going to fill it with the profiles that I am
>>sure are usable, so if I miss something, just add it.  I figure it'll be
>>easy enough to add this support to portage and we might as well get the
>>ball rolling by populating the file.
> 
> 
> i objected on irc, does that count ? :)
> 
> why add another file when we already have one (profiles.desc) ?  
> unfortunately, repoman will only respect the last entry for each arch, but 
> maybe in the future it'll suck less and check all of them ...
> -mike

Isn't profiles.desc just a list of *default* profiles though?  We want a list
of all valid profiles.  So I think we should either extend profiles.desc to
contain all valid profiles, or add a new file.

Looking at profiles.desc did make me realize something though.  If we do
decided to do a separate file, I think we should list the arch as well along
side the profile, kind of like profiles.desc does.  This would allow us to get
a list of all valid profiles for a certain arch.

In the case that I need this for (the eclectic profiles module), it'd be much
better IMO to be able to show valid profiles for a certain arch since a valid
profile for sparc is obviously not a valid profile for x86.

Having a format of something like:

alpha	default-linux/alpha/2004.3
alpha	default-linux/alpha/2005.0
...
x86	default-linux/x86/2004.3
...

would be ideal IMO.

comments?
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Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@gentoo.org>
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