From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Em0Yi-0003Oo-Pd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:10:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBD39ORX030346; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:09:24 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBD36nmK005981 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:06:49 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i3so33236wra for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:06:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ozAsbAZ3n5toGNQV+BNHlFycYWux761pDAEJ9uHLFKkTcjf2RmBHFa8zcrdqGANy0k2ITP3VwwH5T90AsI7yhEg8jC9ETU52KP9VVaCiPPqKtOx+d6e0iPj6kD3Lpm8gZNkAjJp2pzbiII8ec/LI+2rGuqLd7ZO/c1u5Ex7A0OE= Received: by 10.54.62.16 with SMTP id k16mr290777wra; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:06:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.22.6? ( [66.27.157.183]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 43sm163540wri.2005.12.12.19.06.47; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:06:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <439E3AFE.4000907@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:07:42 -0800 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051204) 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@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates References: <20051211013550.66bfd7d2@snowdrop.home> <200512131117.30933.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <20051213022200.05b9f6a6@snowdrop.home> <200512131139.14099.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <20051213024815.50797652@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051213024815.50797652@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 10170c58-4f5e-4e0c-a5fb-66e17d081509 X-Archives-Hash: 377d560b77cb5a9aa531b395134bab84 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:39:14 +0900 Jason Stubbs > wrote: > | And how can that be adapted to work with overlays, completely > | ignoring the possibility of distinct repositories. Overlays is > | something that exists already and news support for them is a request > | that will appear as soon as news support is added. > > Overlays don't contain metadata directories and don't get synced, so > they don't contain news items. Supporting news from multiple sources is > something that's tied to supporting packages from multiple sources, > which overlay doesn't permit. Fixing that would require fixing portage > to support multiple repositories rather than using overlay, which is an > issue for a different GLEP. > You can use gensync (included with gentoolkit). $ gensync --help Usage: gensync repo-id-1 repo-id-2 ... where is one of -a, --all-sources - sync all know sources -l, --list-sources - list known rsync sources -C, --no-color - turn off colours -h, --help - this help screen -V, --version - display version info Zac -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list