From: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Eselect repository feature request
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 18:49:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2f0a4b6-1911-5759-7930-4e596381d910@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0EP43qiDAeV+CoqA0J0LNxzPinRHhSXf2prka9yWB6PF+EZQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 21/06/2023 17.56, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 11:41 AM Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 20.06.23 19:26, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 1:08 PM Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 20.06.23 16:41, TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI wrote:
>>>>> Isn't that duplicating the information of metadata/layout.conf's
>>>>> 'master' key-value pair [1]?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I agree that it would be duplicating that information. As a matter
>>>>> of fact, Michał Górny pointed the same thing out.
>>>>> However, Michał also added, quote: "What's really lacking here is
>>>>> support for specifying dependencies via |repositories.xml|
>>>>
>>>> Do we need to duplicate the information in repositories.xml, with all
>>>> the drawbacks of duplication?
>>>>
>>>> Can't eselect repository add the new repository, then read the 'masters'
>>>> value from layout.conf, and add the missing repositories recursively?
>>>
>>> That would be a significant change in behavior for eselect repository.
>>
>> Right, but it seems to be a desirable behaviour. Cases where the user
>> wants to add a repo but not immediately sync it are probably rare.
>>
>> Furthermore, it would avoid duplicating the information, which avoids
>> the typical drawbacks of duplication (e.g., the two sets getting out of
>> sync).
>>
>> I've looked at the eselect-repository code, and it seems not hard to
>> change the behaviour of "eselect repository add" to add and sync a
>> repository and then, recursively, add and sync further required
>> repositories.
>>
>> I may give it a shot, but ideally I'd know if it has a chance to be
>> accepted upstream first. Or maybe there is a good reason why
>> eselect-repository behaves as it currently does that I am missing?
>
> I can't speak for "upstream", but here are my concerns:
>
> 1. As a developer, I might just want to create the repos.conf config
> snippet and sync the repo manually.
> 2. As a user, I might have any arbitrary reason for not wanting to
> sync immediately.
Would an opt-out switch be enough to alleviate those concerns of you?
> 3. eselect-repository does not currently depend on any particular
> package manager. It writes config files intended for Portage, but it
> does not actually invoke any Portage commands. That feels like a
> significant distinction to me.
> 4. If you start invoking Portage commands, you then have to deal with
> the possibility of people using alternate package managers. pkgcore
> can also utilize Portage's repos.conf, and the user might prefer to
> use pmaint instead of emaint or emerge --sync.
Those two points seem to be based on the same fundamental concern.
The only portage specific code would be the call to "emaint sync -r
$repo" (remember that "emerge --sync" is just a wrapper for "emaint sync
--auto"). I think it would be easy to add later 1. add support for
different package managers (if the need arises), and 2. make the "sync
command" user configurable.
- Flow
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-18 20:39 [gentoo-dev] Eselect repository feature request TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI
2023-06-20 13:44 ` Florian Schmaus
2023-06-20 14:41 ` TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI
2023-06-20 17:08 ` Florian Schmaus
2023-06-20 17:26 ` Mike Gilbert
2023-06-20 18:07 ` Andrew Ammerlaan
2023-06-21 2:17 ` TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI
2023-06-21 7:15 ` Andrew Ammerlaan
2023-06-21 13:40 ` TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI
2023-06-21 13:58 ` Andrew Ammerlaan
2023-06-21 14:12 ` TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI
2023-06-21 14:30 ` Andrew Ammerlaan
2023-06-21 14:43 ` TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI
2023-06-21 15:07 ` Mike Gilbert
2023-06-21 15:34 ` TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI
2023-06-21 15:41 ` Florian Schmaus
2023-06-21 15:56 ` Mike Gilbert
2023-06-21 16:47 ` TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI
2023-06-21 17:45 ` Mike Gilbert
2023-06-21 17:59 ` TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI
2023-06-24 17:02 ` Florian Schmaus
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2023-07-12 18:03 ` TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI
2023-06-21 17:59 ` Anna
2023-06-21 16:49 ` Florian Schmaus [this message]
2023-06-21 17:28 ` Mike Gilbert
2023-06-21 18:42 ` Sam James
2023-06-21 19:03 ` TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI
2023-06-21 19:16 ` Sam James
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