[patch] [PATCH 1/2] EAPI 7 supports a directory for package.mask.

0001-EAPI-7-supports-a-directory-for-package.mask.patch (text/plain), 2.98 KB, created by Ulrich Müller on 2015-11-30 15:47:37 UTC

From c8c76d0bf673bdb3e7271dd7bc55587a21b8d0a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ulrich=20M=C3=BCller?= <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 00:00:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] EAPI 7 supports a directory for package.mask.

Bug: 282296
---
 eapi-differences.tex |  4 ++++
 tree-layout.tex      | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/eapi-differences.tex b/eapi-differences.tex
index 6f4698c..a66d388 100644
--- a/eapi-differences.tex
+++ b/eapi-differences.tex
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ of this document for a complete table of previous EAPIs.
 \bottomrule
 \endlastfoot
 
+\t{package.mask} directory & \compactfeatureref{package-mask-dir} &
+    No & No & No & No & Yes \\
+
 Stable use masking/forcing & \compactfeatureref{stablemask} &
     No & No & Yes & Yes & Yes \\
 
@@ -373,6 +376,7 @@ EAPI 6 is EAPI 5 with the following changes:
 EAPI 7 is EAPI 6 with the following changes:
 
 \begin{compactitem}
+\item \t{profiles/package.mask} can be a directory, \featureref{package-mask-dir}.
 \item \t{dohtml} banned, \featureref{banned-commands}.
 \end{compactitem}
 
diff --git a/tree-layout.tex b/tree-layout.tex
index 0554a64..9228338 100644
--- a/tree-layout.tex
+++ b/tree-layout.tex
@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ manager must ignore any files in this directory that it does not recognise.
     Contains a list, one entry per line, of package dependency specifications (using the directory's
     EAPI). Any package version matching one of these is considered to be masked, and will not be
     installed regardless of profile unless it is unmasked by the user configuration.
+
+    \featurelabel{package-mask-dir} For EAPIs listed in table~\ref{tab:package-mask-dir} as
+    supporting it, \t{package.mask} can be a directory instead of a regular file. Files contained
+    in that directory, unless their name begins with a dot, will be concatenated in order of their
+    filename in the POSIX locale and the result will be processed as if it were a single file.
+    Any subdirectories will be ignored.
 \item[profiles.desc] Described below in section~\ref{sec:profiles.desc}.
 \item[repo\_name] Contains, on a single line, the name of this repository. The repository name must
     conform to section~\ref{sec:repository-names}.
@@ -128,6 +134,20 @@ manager must ignore any files in this directory that it does not recognise.
 \item[updates/] This directory is described in section~\ref{sec:updates-dir}.
 \end{description}
 
+\ChangeWhenAddingAnEAPI{7}
+\begin{centertable}{EAPIs supporting a directory for \t{package.mask}}
+    \label{tab:package-mask-dir}
+    \begin{tabular}{ll}
+      \toprule
+      \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textbf{EAPI}} &
+      \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textbf{\t{package.mask} can be a directory?}} \\
+      \midrule
+      0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & No  \\
+      7                   & Yes \\
+      \bottomrule
+    \end{tabular}
+\end{centertable}
+
 \subsection{The profiles.desc file}
 \label{sec:profiles.desc}
 \t{profiles.desc} is a line-based file, with the standard commenting
-- 
2.6.3