Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Plugin backport PATCH (1/2)/(2/2)

2005-11-18 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 16:16, Alec Warner wrote: Brian asked me to split this up, and the first patch had some cruft...and I broke things, both from old messing around. So I started with a clean installed of rc7, hopefully these are a bit better. One patch is for the backend stuff,

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Making pax-utils a depend

2005-11-18 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 04:41, solar wrote: For those of you that do not know we Mike Frysinger and myself have written a general purpose ELF Q/A tool called pax-utils The tool itself can be used to preform a number of tasks. What ferringb would like todo is take advantage of this tool

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Bugzilla Bug 112779: New and Improved Way to Handle /etc/portage

2005-11-18 Thread Brian Harring
Zac Medico wrote: Brian Harring wrote: This makes portage go looking in two different locations for overrides; I know from looking through the code, /etc/portage/package.* overrides the includes, but users won't. This behavior could be documented and possibly configurable. Adding another

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Making pax-utils a depend

2005-11-18 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:46:04AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Wednesday 16 November 2005 04:41, solar wrote: For those of you that do not know we Mike Frysinger and myself have written a general purpose ELF Q/A tool called pax-utils The tool itself can be used to preform a number of

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Bugzilla Bug 112779: New and Improved Way to Handle /etc/portage

2005-11-18 Thread Zac Medico
Brian Harring wrote: Adding another configurable to control it gets back to my point- should be a simple, extensible *singular* method of doing this, not N methods. Agreed. Not so much transactional as groupping/seperation of each apps files. (sort of). The type of changes you're talking

[gentoo-portage-dev] Display of keyword in emerge : code proposal

2005-11-18 Thread jb benoit
Hello, I'm a newcomer here. The subject deal here was originaly posted here : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-403287.html I have always wanted to display the keywords involved when you emerge a package. Per exemple, i want to know if the xchat-2.6.0 i'll emerge is a stable version, an

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: parallel-fetch

2005-11-18 Thread Zac Medico
Brian Harring wrote: The modification is pretty straight forward offhand; the notable difference this time around is rather then extending portage_exec to have the capability to 'spawn' python funcs (something I always found ugly), this handles the fork itself. This patch seems to work well

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Bugzilla Bug 112779: New and Improved Way to Handle /etc/portage

2005-11-18 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 09:25:57AM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Brian Harring wrote: The type of changes you're talking about could just as easily be integrated into package.* with source command added to it. Where's the gain in adding a secondary location for these files, when the same can

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] inital Manifest2 support

2005-11-18 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:33:02AM +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:07:56 +0100 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, IIRC we (=Gentoo as a whole) pretty much agreed to drop the digest files in favor of a extended Manifest format. Well, today I wrote some

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Bugzilla Bug 112779: New and Improved Way to Handle /etc/portage

2005-11-18 Thread capitalista
On 11/18/05, Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feedback? Well, I don't like it mainly. :) This makes portage go looking in two different locations for overrides; I know from looking through the code, /etc/portage/package.* overrides the includes, but users won't. Configuration in two