From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j29AXfdG016383 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:33:42 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-01-smtplb.tampabay.rr.com ([65.32.5.131] helo=ms-smtp-01.tampabay.rr.com) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D8yVY-000449-Qq for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:33:40 +0000 Received: from zeus.ka0ttic.dyndns.org (114.175.205.68.cfl.res.rr.com [68.205.175.114]) by ms-smtp-01.tampabay.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j29AXcNi008295 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 05:33:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.50] (bedlam [192.168.1.50]) by zeus.ka0ttic.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA3A813F09 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 05:33:38 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <422E8204.6020706@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:56:36 -0500 From: Aaron Walker User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Identifying inherit-only / usable profiles (round 2) References: <42224847.1060703@gentoo.org> <42248535.6040602@gentoo.org> <1110220955.9520.212.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <200503080924.04525.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200503080924.04525.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: 9359964c-8c2a-42e4-81f4-83d4de405ace X-Archives-Hash: 81bc904f8da78a92ba64db9b0b5da130 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? - -- Yow! Aaron Walker [ BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon | vim | web-apps ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCLoIDC3poscuANHARAlfEAJ0f5mbRJb8NnXILKiYfc5xMbbt7agCeJT2F 02McRAEWL3vEaV+ATPG3VK0= =zsyD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list