Re: [gentoo-dev] perl eclass review - EAPI=3 + new helper eclass

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

On 04/01/2010 05:17 PM, Brian Harring wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 05:14:20PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
>> You can configure eclass override behavior via eclass-overrides in
>> /etc/portage/repos.conf, as documented in `man portage`. There are a
>> number of caveats to eclass-overrides, and that's why it's not the
>> default behavior. For example, beware that you'll need to set
>> PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude=/metadata/cache" if your overlay
>> eclasses modify any ebuild metadata (as documented in `man portage`).
> 
> Why not add some boolean list to the repo definition controlling that, 
> rather then requiring people to specify the raw RSYNC option?  
> Something like REPO_OPTIONS='exclude-cache'?
> 
> You can also jam some other options in there- one that might be useful 
> for folks is specifying the minimal sync period (sync this repo at 
> most once a day, or at most once an hour), etc.

I think it would be preferable to extend the cache format to improve
the validation mechanism, as discussed here:


http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_cfa80e33ee5fa6f854120ddfb9b468b3.xml

That said, I wouldn't be opposed to adding something like the
REPO_OPTIONS='exclude-cache' approach that you suggest.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac