Re: [gentoo-dev] portage database management

["Brian Friday" <bfriday@lasierra.edu>]

<quote who="Alain Penders">
> Looking at the cheer size of Ant -- all the stuff they had to put in
> before it  became a really useful system, I'd vote against trying to do
> this for portage.   Having an XML definition for each package, yes...
> replacing the actual build  code by XML - no.

I agree as well, the example I gave earlier of a possible XML package file
was  based on my incorrect assumption portage was python and not bash
based. Not sure why I got that impression, especially as I realize all the
conf files have bash syntax...

My general thought was this: Craft a XML file which clearly identifies the
sections of the current ebuild system. Once this is done (again I was
thinking of python or perl here not bash) create a wrapper which acts as a
transition layer between portage and the new package XML file.

Clearly though I don't know enough about portage so please forgive my
past/current ignorance as I go back and read the manual.

--
Brian



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