From: Steve Dibb <beandog@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-qa] splitting up package.mask
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:59:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D9EA1D.5070602@gentoo.org> (raw)
Hey guys,
I have an idea I'd like to run by the QA team.
For a user's portage preferences, we can have /etc/package.mask be a
file or a directory of files (package.mask/*) that will cumulatively
create the same effect.
Because package.mask in CVS for profiles is so huge, I think it might
help it to get organized if we split it up a bit.
halcyon had a good idea for the scheme: testing, broken, removal. That
seems to sum up the main 3 reason that a package would be masked.
Right now there are 679 entries in package.mask. The reason I came up
with the idea was to find a way to make it easier for treecleaners to
quickly see which ones they were working on.
I'd like to take the discussion to -dev but wanted to get QA's thoughts
first. I haven't looked into whether or not this is technically
feasible at all.
Steve
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-14 2:59 Steve Dibb [this message]
2008-03-14 3:06 ` [gentoo-qa] splitting up package.mask Alec Warner
2008-03-14 7:12 ` Marius Mauch
2008-03-14 20:54 ` Chris Gianelloni
2008-03-15 1:50 ` Mark Loeser
2008-03-14 10:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-03-14 14:54 ` Alec Warner
2008-03-15 3:03 ` Mike Frysinger
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