From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mt1rU-00035o-Ad for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:17:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11AFDE087C; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:17:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay10.ispgateway.de (smtprelay10.ispgateway.de [80.67.31.44]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D5AE087C for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:17:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.179.30.7] (helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtprelay10.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Mt1qE-0006Jh-1Z for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:15:46 +0200 Message-ID: <4AC3847D.9020902@hartwork.org> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:17:01 +0200 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090820) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org References: <4AC0FF26.4030608@hartwork.org> <20090930153906.070cf662@snowcone> <4AC37E66.5030708@hartwork.org> <20090930165340.79a93e46@snowcone> <4AC3808D.7010205@hartwork.org> <20090930170457.7b8d2d14@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <20090930170457.7b8d2d14@snowcone> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: 874396 X-Archives-Salt: 7b74cd24-9186-42b3-9be2-1329bac32cac X-Archives-Hash: 1edf8ba5014bbdbf9b0ecec940b51ba4 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Sure. Just periodically fetch the repository centrally. Have a master > list of sync URLs with expected repository names, and use that to > generate the full master list that includes metadata. > > Added bonus: you can quickly remove any repository that no longer > exists. How long do you want the time frame for add-meta-data-or-get-kicked to be? If half the repos don't not make it will kicking them help anybody? What if that metadata format changes later or is extended by additional required entries? Sebastian