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@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@ -# TODO list for Portage; the Gentoo Linux package system -# $Id: TODO,v 1.11 2004/09/09 08:02:53 carpaski Exp $ - -# -# Add your name to the top of any item you are working actively on -# and then commit. Be sure you have a current copy of this file. -# - -Legend: - '*' Just do it. '#' Tricky - '!' Difficult '@' Restricted in some way - - File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_locks.py", line 46, in lockfile - myfd = os.open(lockfilename, os.O_CREAT|os.O_RDWR,0660) - OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/tmp/portage/tmpfs/aux_db_key_temp' - - - - -* Clean should only produce output for 'emerge clean' - -# Stop using mtimes for packages. Have portage look up all files in the - vardb to ensure that a file isn't duplicated and unmerge it if not. - Potentially slow... Need some way to speed it up... hash of filenames? - -# Virtuals. /var/cache/edb/virtuals -- Effectively remove it. - /etc/portage/virtuals is a user-modifiable version that acts like an - incremental applied on top of an ON-DEMAND virtual calculation system. - Virtuals should be calculated from /var/db/pkg EVERY time it is requested. - -# Repoman needs to ignore all user-set info in /etc/portage - It's not relevant to deployed users and will probably be a general gotcha. - -# Multiple rsync repos. - bug 28796 -- Enable metadata caches for them. - -# STICKIES and related enhancements: - bug 9379, bug 13616, Aether's config code - -# Determine file lock status before starting downloads -- Prevent races/deletes - Patches exist for this. Integrate and find all colliding descriptors/cmds. - Create a fileIO layer? (wget and other external calls are a problem) - -* Add category support to searches... emerge -s @catgory - -@ rsync - track changes based in subtrees to reduce filetree expense. - Possible plans: - Use md5's of tree file list + md5 of subtree -- client-side burden. - Maintain hash of changes on rsync1 -- Server-side burden. ** - Implement CVSUP. ** - -# 'emerge sync' timestamp awareness -- Make sure IP is associated and not - used at random as servers may differ. bug 21794 - -! Rename all undocumented variables used in bash to prefixed values that - are not easy to accidently duplicate. BUILDDIR --> PORTAGE_BUILDDIR or - something like that. Prevent ebuilds from clobbering system variables. - - - |