Re: Assigning out QA work.

Fabian Groffen <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:08:21 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.java
Organization Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 26-01-2009 17:49:45 +1300, Alistair Bush wrote:
> Please find attached the output of repoman over java-experimental.  I
> was only able to achieve this after a few modifications to portage trunk
> (http://rafb.net/p/NknPVL65.html).  There are a few things to be aware of.
> 
> 1) I haven't got a clue whether it actually works.  I would actually
> like ppl to confirm that it does/discover where it doesn't
> 2) Im interested to know what doesn't work,  but im not actually
> expecting those patches to be the final implementation.  This is
> something that _just seems to work_.  Therefore don't be surprised if
> nothing more comes of this.  Hopefully these patches work in all
> situations but they may not requiring a far more invasive
> implementation.  I have no experience with the portage codebase so I
> doubt I could do that implementation.
> 
> The patch will be posted to gentoo-dev.

before you do, it might make sense to remove the hardcoded reference to
your overlay on your disk ;)

zmedico is usually quite open for patches, but I guess you need to make
it a little bit more generic than it is now.

My 0.02



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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level