From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6B0138247 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 07:59:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F404CE0B86; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 07:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F3832E0B7E for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 07:59:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from phjr-macbookpro.local (77-255-60-223.adsl.inetia.pl [77.255.60.223]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: phajdan.jr) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C06E533F587 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 07:59:12 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <52CE56C9.6050603@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:59:05 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?IlBhd2XFgiBIYWpkYW4sIEpyLiI=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 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] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="v9sRlwb0jHM9JHUUKQs1xwPJcbHmJcTds" X-Archives-Salt: a47144e6-7ac2-445a-80ad-6e59d652adf1 X-Archives-Hash: 2afe841410a7b60fb8993251b1476f3a This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --v9sRlwb0jHM9JHUUKQs1xwPJcbHmJcTds Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > I would like to make it a directory instead of a single file, and exten= d > 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). Pawe=C5=82 --v9sRlwb0jHM9JHUUKQs1xwPJcbHmJcTds Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAlLOVs4ACgkQuUQtlDBCeQIQPwCfUXLlq/ivVzcogQNi6IsYS0Lb iAQAn3PlZwAZVoqW2Iq6cvMoFh3thbSl =Yjkb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --v9sRlwb0jHM9JHUUKQs1xwPJcbHmJcTds--