On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:22:25 +0000 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Each parent can revert things in preceding parents. Every > >> subdirectory has .. as implicit parent. > > > > I hate this. It means we have to work out when to stop, which is by > > no means entirely obvious. > > So parents files with one parent per line?
That's a lot easier, yes. > > One thing that's not been addressed: how does this work across > > multiple repositories? We probably want a way of letting > > supplemental repositories define their own profile bits (defaults, > > suboptions etc) in a way that meshes nicely with the main profile. > > > > Just have the mangler look both in arbor/profiles/foo/bar and > > supplemental/profiles/foo/bar when it's using a profile that > > mentions "foo/bar" as its path thing? > > Having the mere addition of another repository alter the default > options for all > packages is nasty. Maybe just looking at profiles/foo/bar for the > repository of each > package and all that repository's masters will work? First master > first and the > repository last. I didn't mean having it affect other repositories. Settings in a repository's profiles would only affect that repository, plus anything that lists that repository as a master. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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