[gentoo-dev] Permission to add a dummy package in tree
Hello, these days I am working on a puppet module for portage. For testing I have created a dummy package which can be found here [1]. The package installs files based on useflags, and it comes in stable, testing and hardmasked versions, plus it has some useflag changes between versions. With this package I can make sure that the puppet provider does its various operations fine. I'm about to start writing unit tests for that provider, and I would like to use that package for the testing. It would be preferred to move that package in tree though. Since the ebuilds are useless for everybody else, and maybe violate policy about the stable tree, I'd like to know if there are any objections to move it to tree. If there are none, I'll move it in one month [1] https://github.com/gentoo-el/overlay/tree/master/app-misc/dummy Theo
Re: [gentoo-dev] Permission to add a dummy package in tree
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:07:09 +0100 Theo Chatzimichos tampak...@gentoo.org wrote: these days I am working on a puppet module for portage. For testing I have created a dummy package which can be found here [1]. The package installs files based on useflags, and it comes in stable, testing and hardmasked versions, plus it has some useflag changes between versions. With this package I can make sure that the puppet provider does its various operations fine. I'm about to start writing unit tests for that provider, and I would like to use that package for the testing. It would be preferred to move that package in tree though. Since the ebuilds are useless for everybody else, and maybe violate policy about the stable tree, I'd like to know if there are any objections to move it to tree. If there are none, I'll move it in one month [1] https://github.com/gentoo-el/overlay/tree/master/app-misc/dummy To be honest, I don't mind having dummy packages in the tree. I would be happy to convert gentoopm sometime to use them instead of relying on random packages to match its criteria. However, I'd rather see them in a special category, and preferably prefixed with 'gentoo-' to make it least possible for any kind of name collisions. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Permission to add a dummy package in tree
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:07:09 +0100 Theo Chatzimichos tampak...@gentoo.org wrote: these days I am working on a puppet module for portage. For testing I have created a dummy package which can be found here [1]. The package installs files based on useflags, and it comes in stable, testing and hardmasked versions, plus it has some useflag changes between versions. With this package I can make sure that the puppet provider does its various operations fine. I'm about to start writing unit tests for that provider, and I would like to use that package for the testing. It would be preferred to move that package in tree though. Since the ebuilds are useless for everybody else, and maybe violate policy about the stable tree, I'd like to know if there are any objections to move it to tree. If there are none, I'll move it in one month [1] https://github.com/gentoo-el/overlay/tree/master/app-misc/dummy To be honest, I don't mind having dummy packages in the tree. I would be happy to convert gentoopm sometime to use them instead of relying on random packages to match its criteria. However, I'd rather see them in a special category, and preferably prefixed with 'gentoo-' to make it least possible for any kind of name collisions. -- Best regards, Michał Górny If there are more dummy packages then a separate category seems good idea (and thanks for that), but if mine is the only case then i don't see a reason for that Theo
Re: [gentoo-dev] Permission to add a dummy package in tree
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:17:32 +0100 Theo Chatzimichos tampak...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:07:09 +0100 Theo Chatzimichos tampak...@gentoo.org wrote: these days I am working on a puppet module for portage. For testing I have created a dummy package which can be found here [1]. The package installs files based on useflags, and it comes in stable, testing and hardmasked versions, plus it has some useflag changes between versions. With this package I can make sure that the puppet provider does its various operations fine. I'm about to start writing unit tests for that provider, and I would like to use that package for the testing. It would be preferred to move that package in tree though. Since the ebuilds are useless for everybody else, and maybe violate policy about the stable tree, I'd like to know if there are any objections to move it to tree. If there are none, I'll move it in one month [1] https://github.com/gentoo-el/overlay/tree/master/app-misc/dummy To be honest, I don't mind having dummy packages in the tree. I would be happy to convert gentoopm sometime to use them instead of relying on random packages to match its criteria. However, I'd rather see them in a special category, and preferably prefixed with 'gentoo-' to make it least possible for any kind of name collisions. -- Best regards, Michał Górny If there are more dummy packages then a separate category seems good idea (and thanks for that), but if mine is the only case then i don't see a reason for that Well, my main goal here is to clearly keep the package split from 'meaningful' packages. So if I listed app-misc/ for no good reason, I shall not see this package. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Permission to add a dummy package in tree
On 12/12/2012 19:07, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: It would be preferred to move that package in tree though. I don't like it. Please use an overlay to test this kind of stuff, thanks. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
Re: [gentoo-dev] Permission to add a dummy package in tree
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Theo Chatzimichos tampak...@gentoo.org wrote: If there are more dummy packages then a separate category seems good idea (and thanks for that), but if mine is the only case then i don't see a reason for that I'd prefer to not see a bunch of these, but having a single dummy package in portage doesn't really seem like a bad thing. Diego suggested using an overlay instead. If you don't want to deal with overlay logic another option might be to just make a replica of the whole tree and host that somewhere else and just point to it for syncing. Then you can do anything you want to anything in the tree. Rich
Re: [gentoo-dev] Permission to add a dummy package in tree
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 12/12/2012 19:07, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: It would be preferred to move that package in tree though. I don't like it. Please use an overlay to test this kind of stuff, thanks. Thank you all for the feedback, I won't proceed. Theo
