Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-26 Thread Kobboi
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 11:54 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: The current situation: Binary packages are (usually) stored in /usr/portage/packages/$category/$package-$version.tbz2. The package consists of the real binary package and the metadata (combined using xpak or whatever). No, the

[gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread Philipp Riegger
Good morning, I want to talk about improved binary package support for Gentoo. About 1-2 months ago there already was a discussion about this on gentoo-soc@ and on bugzilla [1]. If I remember correctly, there were no devs involved in the discussion, so I thought I'll post my thoughts here. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread lxnay
This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage = Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and apidocs. http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=entropy.git;a=summary -- Fabio Erculiani signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread Ben de Groot
lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage = Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and apidocs. http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=entropy.git;a=summary Only problem with entropy is that it doesn't work nice with

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread lxnay
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage = Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and apidocs.

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread Ben de Groot
lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage = Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and apidocs.

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread lxnay
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage = Entropy. I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages

2009-05-25 Thread Ben de Groot
lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage = Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and apidocs. http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=entropy.git;a=summary Next time, please post