Re: [gentoo-dev] extend profiles.desc to include experimental profiles

2008-01-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 00:40 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 11 January 2008, Chris Gianelloni wrote: For one, a way to mark a profile as deprecated in profiles.desc so repoman doesn't scan it (currently, we remove tend to remove them from the list). is this really needed ? i'm

[gentoo-dev] extend profiles.desc to include experimental profiles

2008-01-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
after dealing with m68k, mips, and the *-fbsd ports, i think we could do with a new state for profiles.desc. the new field would simply be exp to indicate that the profile is experimental and that qa tools should generally not issue warnings about them. so in repoman's default mode, you

Re: [gentoo-dev] extend profiles.desc to include experimental profiles

2008-01-11 Thread Doug Klima
Mike Frysinger wrote: after dealing with m68k, mips, and the *-fbsd ports, i think we could do with a new state for profiles.desc. the new field would simply be exp to indicate that the profile is experimental and that qa tools should generally not issue warnings about them. so in repoman's

Re: [gentoo-dev] extend profiles.desc to include experimental profiles

2008-01-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 09:59 -0500, Doug Klima wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: after dealing with m68k, mips, and the *-fbsd ports, i think we could do with a new state for profiles.desc. the new field would simply be exp to indicate that the profile is experimental and that qa tools

Re: [gentoo-dev] extend profiles.desc to include experimental profiles

2008-01-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 11 January 2008, Chris Gianelloni wrote: For one, a way to mark a profile as deprecated in profiles.desc so repoman doesn't scan it (currently, we remove tend to remove them from the list). is this really needed ? i'm trying to see why this would be useful, and not coming up with