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Bug 59459 - Smaller sync via package lists
Summary: Smaller sync via package lists
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Ebuild Support (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2004-08-04 15:58 UTC by John Richard Moser
Modified: 2004-08-04 17:53 UTC (History)
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Small proposal (portage_pl.txt,3.04 KB, text/plain)
2004-08-04 15:58 UTC, John Richard Moser
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Description John Richard Moser 2004-08-04 15:58:00 UTC
I wrote up a tiny thing about moving Portage to a more Debian-like structure, where you download package lists and go from there.  With portage, I think it would be useful to have a /usr/portage/categories/cat-egory.list{,.gz,.bz2} to sync rather than /usr/portage/can-egory/ to sync.  Many fewer files, but the file in question would be much larger.

The file would contain the name of each package; the versions available; the size of downloads for each version; the short description; the USE flags that affect the package; the package's homepage; the hash of each ebuild; the DEPENDS and RDPENDS for each ebuild; the KEYWORDS for each ebuild; and any other immediately relavent data for dependency calculation.  It would also contain where to download ebuilds from (for third party support).

The process would then become a matter of:

 - Calculating dependencies
 - Downloading the ebuild
 - Checking the md5sum of the ebuild
 - Downloading the related files as dictated by the ebuild itself (SRC_URI as well as patches, manifest, changelog, and digests)
 - Executing the ebuild as normal

I'll post the short proposal as an attachment.
Comment 1 John Richard Moser 2004-08-04 15:58:51 UTC
Created attachment 36779 [details]
Small proposal

Very sketchy, leaves you lots of leeway.
Comment 2 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-04 17:53:53 UTC
Please take this to the gentoo-dev mailing list, and propose it there...
Offhand, I'm pretty strongly against this- this would not be much fun dialup user imo.

Closing as CANTFIX; take it to the dev mailing list to get feedback... if this did actually go ahead, it would likely be a glep; if that occurs, we reopen this bug for the feature implementation.

We wouldn't be able to make a massive change to the tree like that w/out the majority of devs agreeing- if they like the proposal, and things are signed off on, then we can look into how to actually implement it.