Martin Vaeth wrote:
>
>> Even if I believe in a metadata angel and if we pretend that the PMS
>> requires the metadata to be there, then rebuilding whenever metadata
>> changes is still not 100% correct (as you point out), because it often
>> rebuilds pointlessly. But that's getting into a harder
Michael Orlitzky wrote:
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> Who generates the metadata when I `git pull`?
For the gentoo repository, it is in general some gentoo server
which then pushes the calculated metadata to the repository which
you pull as a user.
It is *possible* to use the "plain" repository, but you have to
set up qui
On 2020-09-04 04:39, Martin Vaeth wrote:
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>> That's completely legal according to the PMS, and also the
>> smart thing to do:
>
> s/smart/dumb/, but necessary for a dumb PM
Word games notwithstanding, these are the package managers described by
the PMS.
>> sourcing a few thousand lines of bash
Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> What's happening is that the PM is using the metadata from the installed
> version of the package, rather than the ninja-edited metadata in the
> repo (how would it know which ebuilds were edited meaningfully?).
The question is easy to answer:
It is reasonable to assume
