Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: app-portage/repoman/

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

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On 03/30/2018 08:16 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 12:42:09PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
>> Dnia 30 marca 2018 11:01:33 CEST, Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
>>> On 03/30/2018 01:42 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>>> Dnia 30 marca 2018 09:07:03 CEST, Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
>>> napisał(a):
>>>>> On 03/29/2018 10:20 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>>>>> Dnia 30 marca 2018 06:30:14 CEST, Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
>>>>> napisał(a):
>>>>>>> commit:     3f04d4d93d00afa5242a0c9459487c9eea7e9a6f
>>>>>>> Author:     Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
>>>>>>> AuthorDate: Fri Mar 30 04:18:05 2018 +0000
>>>>>>> Commit:     Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
>>>>>>> CommitDate: Fri Mar 30 04:30:05 2018 +0000
>>>>>>> URL:       
>>>>>>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3f04d4d9
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> app-portage/repoman: version bump to 2.3.8
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This release adds support for plugin module systems.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> See:
>>>>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Repoman-Module-specs
>>>>>>> Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.27_p1, Repoman-2.3.8
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please revert this immediately. This was never finished, had open
>>>>> concerns that were never addressed and the added Gentoo repository
>>>>> files were never subject to proper RFC/review that was requested.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've disabled this feature by default, and hidden it behind an
>>>>> --experimental-repository-modules=<y|n> option.
>>>>
>>>> That isn't going to work for me. Given that the yml files were added
>>> to repository without prior discussion, and contrary to the promises
>>> given by Portage team such discussion hasn't been started before
>>> merging the changes to master, I'd like to request removing all those
>>> files and not reintroducing them until Portage team specifies their
>>> format and brings it to open discussion.
>>>
>>> Yeah I agree that the format really needs a proper specification. I've
>>> gone ahead and removed them:
>>>
>>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f62e76a1e0202dcf55faa2b0fd9b21a1cd184dc8
>>
>> Thanks. I hope this will let us start with a clean slate towards making a good format.
> 
> If there is some distro policy that this repoman enhancement violated,
> that's fine and I would like to know about it, but I'm not aware of it.

The format is definitely not fully baked, and will likely change, so I
think it's better to wait for it to mature some more.

> If there isn't, as far as I know, there is no reason for it to be
> blocked.

This is not really blocking anything, people can go ahead and use the
repoman --experimental-repository-modules=y option, even add it to
REPOMAN_DEFAULT_OPTS, and it will just work.
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Thanks,
Zac


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