I like the xml generation pass but i have a few questions:
does the xml-publish transaction lend a greater window of opportunity
for mirror rsync de-sync?
does it make sense for digest info be sucked up into the xml pass, to
be superceded by the legacy files where present ala
ebuild x-y/
Brian Harring wrote:
>>I definitively like the idea, it should speed up emerge -s enormously
>
> Unlikely... stable portage knows of metadata.xml *explicitly* in two
> places, repoman's commit code, and digest checking, neither of which
> come into play for an emerge -s. You'll remove one entr
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:47:37PM +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote:
> Hi Brian
> > What's the gain, aside from implication of collapsing it into a
> > single file? Honestly my only use for metadata.xml is looking up who
> > I get to poke about fixing broken ebuilds...
> The gain is:
> ... that you p
On Friday 27 May 2005 13:01, Simon Stelling wrote:
>
> Sounds good, if your script validates the per-package metadata.xml
> before transform it to the global one. It'd really suck if a single
> missing '>' could screw the whole tree's metadata. This shouldn't be a
> problem, especially if you trans
On Friday 27 May 2005 13:17, Danny van Dyk wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Paul de Vrieze schrieb:
> > The script is kindoff slow because of all the correction stuff, but
> > it is workable. You can find it (and the accompanying xslt script)
> > in: http://dev.gentoo.org/~pauldv/pkgList.tar.bz2
>
> H, can yo
On Fri, 27 May 2005 13:47:37 +0200 Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| > What's the gain, aside from implication of collapsing it into a
| > single file? Honestly my only use for metadata.xml is looking up
| > who I get to poke about fixing broken ebuilds...
| The gain is:
| ... that you
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Hi Brian
> What's the gain, aside from implication of collapsing it into a
> single file? Honestly my only use for metadata.xml is looking up who
> I get to poke about fixing broken ebuilds...
The gain is:
... that you portage people could use it f
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Hi Paul,
Paul de Vrieze schrieb:
> The script is kindoff slow because of all the correction stuff, but it is
> workable. You can find it (and the accompanying xslt script) in:
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~pauldv/pkgList.tar.bz2
H, can you chmod a+r it pl
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Danny van Dyk wrote:
> On the other hand, if you want to search for a package name via
> metadata, you have to traverse the whole tree. Quite unhandy if done w/o
> a cache and not yet implemented AFAIK.
herdstat can do this. ciaranm poked me the oth
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:01:56PM +0200, Simon Stelling wrote:
> > I would like to propose the following changes:
> > Let's keep the metadata.xml in each package's directory in _CVS only_.
> > Don't propagate them via rsync. Instead, use a script to compile all
> > metadata.xml files into one cent
On Friday 27 May 2005 12:38, Danny van Dyk wrote:
> Hi @ all,
>
> I'd like to have some feedback on an idea that stuck to my mind for
> some time already:
>
> Currently, we (should) have one metadata.xml file per package (8635 in
> the whole tree). This is quite handy if you want to look up informa
Hi,
Danny van Dyk wrote:
> On the other hand, if you want to search for a package name via
> metadata, you have to traverse the whole tree. Quite unhandy if done w/o
> a cache and not yet implemented AFAIK.
It is implemented, see app-portage/eix or app-portage/esearch, but these
both depend on ca
Hello Danny
> Let's keep the metadata.xml in each package's directory in _CVS only_.
> Don't propagate them via rsync. Instead, use a script to compile all
> metadata.xml files into one central (XML) file. (This would probably
> need slight changes to the DTD). This file would then be placed into
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Hi @ all,
I'd like to have some feedback on an idea that stuck to my mind for some
time already:
Currently, we (should) have one metadata.xml file per package (8635 in
the whole tree). This is quite handy if you want to look up information
about a pa
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