Re: [gentoo-dev] Eselect repository feature request

[Florian Schmaus]

On 18.06.23 22:39, TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI wrote:

Hello gentoo devs. The other day I made a feature suggestion to the eselect repository github page. (Here's the link: https://github.com/projg2/eselect-repository/issues/20 <https://github.com/projg2/eselect-repository/issues/20>). Michał Górny suggested that I should contact the gentoo-dev mailing list with my suggestion, so here it is: My suggestion is to make it possible for eselect repository to manage overlay dependencies.

This is my general idea:

As it stands, and as far as I'm concerned, there is no "proper" way of having an ebuild dependency from another overlay. So overlay writers have to copy ebuilds from other overlays or rewrite them. This implies synchronization issues (where the "copied" ebuilds get out of sync from the original ebuild) and time loss (people writing the same ebuild more than once). Michał Górny suggested that I should make an edit to the repositories.xml file in order to tackle the issue. (I am using the github template as an example, but the idea should apply to all other templates. I got this file from https://github.com/gentoo/api-gentoo-org/blob/master/files/overlays/repositories.xml <https://github.com/gentoo/api-gentoo-org/blob/master/files/overlays/repositories.xml>).

   * GITHUB TEMPLATE
     <repo quality="experimental" status="unofficial">
       <name>XXXXX</name>
       <description lang="en">XXXXXX</description>

      <homepage>https://github.com/XXXX/xxxx <https://github.com/XXXX/xxxx></homepage>

       <owner type="person">
         <email>XXXXX</email>
         <name>XXXXX</name>
       </owner>

      <source type="git">https://github.com/XXXX/xxxx.git <https://github.com/XXXX/xxxx.git></source>       <source type="git">git+ssh://g...@github.com/XXXX/xxxx.git <http://g...@github.com/XXXX/xxxx.git></source>       <feed>https://github.com/XXXX/xxxx/commits/master.atom <https://github.com/XXXX/xxxx/commits/master.atom></feed>

       <dependencies>
           <name>overlayName</name>
       </dependencies>
     </repo>

- Flow

Isn't that duplicating the information of metadata/layout.conf's 'master' key-value pair [1]? 1: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Repository_format/metadata/layout.conf#masters

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