On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:16:04 -0800 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Well, that depends... If you have sys-apps/foo installed from the | > gentoo-x86 repository, and the breakmygentoo repository issues a | > news item about sys-apps/foo, should it be displayed? | | Well, probably not. Off hand, perhaps portageq could provide a query | that returns some type of UUID for a package, such as a hash of the | ebuild. That way, the hash from /var/db/pkg could be compared to the | hash from the repo that has the news item. If the hashes don't | match, then the news item is irrelevant.
Now do you see why I don't want to touch multi repo support without a proper specification describing how it'll work? :) -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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