-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 07 March 2005 01:42 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > >>Well, since nobody objected, I'm going to add this to portage after the >>release. I'm probably only going to fill it with the profiles that I am >>sure are usable, so if I miss something, just add it. I figure it'll be >>easy enough to add this support to portage and we might as well get the >>ball rolling by populating the file. > > > i objected on irc, does that count ? :) > > why add another file when we already have one (profiles.desc) ? > unfortunately, repoman will only respect the last entry for each arch, but > maybe in the future it'll suck less and check all of them ... > -mike
Isn't profiles.desc just a list of *default* profiles though? We want a list of all valid profiles. So I think we should either extend profiles.desc to contain all valid profiles, or add a new file. Looking at profiles.desc did make me realize something though. If we do decided to do a separate file, I think we should list the arch as well along side the profile, kind of like profiles.desc does. This would allow us to get a list of all valid profiles for a certain arch. In the case that I need this for (the eclectic profiles module), it'd be much better IMO to be able to show valid profiles for a certain arch since a valid profile for sparc is obviously not a valid profile for x86. Having a format of something like: alpha default-linux/alpha/2004.3 alpha default-linux/alpha/2005.0 ... x86 default-linux/x86/2004.3 ... would be ideal IMO. comments? - -- Yow! Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon | vim | web-apps ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCLoIDC3poscuANHARAlfEAJ0f5mbRJb8NnXILKiYfc5xMbbt7agCeJT2F 02McRAEWL3vEaV+ATPG3VK0= =zsyD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
