From: "\"Paweł Hajdan, Jr.\"" <phajdan.jr@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:59:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52CE56C9.6050603@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <robbat2-20140106T200926-729367005Z@orbis-terrarum.net>
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On 1/6/14, 9:20 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> This is a small feature request, but it will require a modification to
> PMS, so I describe it here.
>
> The present thirdpartymirrors file is unwieldy, and difficult to manage
> due to it's format with very long lines. It also doesn't permit easy
> comments. Presently commits to it look very ugly, because diffs are
> line-based, and we pack a lot into each line.
>
> I would like to make it a directory instead of a single file, and extend
> the internal syntax.
+1 for the general direction.
I think for the final PMS change it would need to be made even more
precise (some thoughts have been expressed in the thread).
Paweł
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-06 20:20 [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage Robin H. Johnson
2014-01-06 21:09 ` Alex Xu
2014-01-07 21:12 ` Robin H. Johnson
2014-01-08 15:11 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-01-08 18:37 ` Alex Xu
2014-01-09 2:14 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-01-09 2:23 ` Alec Warner
2014-01-09 15:14 ` Ben Kohler
2014-01-09 7:59 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." [this message]
2014-01-09 15:26 ` Ben Kohler
2014-01-10 4:58 ` Michał Górny
2014-01-10 6:05 ` Alec Warner
2014-01-11 18:27 ` Gordon Pettey
2014-01-11 19:16 ` Kent Fredric
2014-01-11 19:19 ` Kent Fredric
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