| # TODO list for Portage; the Gentoo Linux package system |
| # $Id: TODO,v 1.11 2004/09/09 08:02:53 carpaski Exp $ |
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| # 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. |
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| Legend: |
| '*' Just do it. '#' Tricky |
| '!' Difficult '@' Restricted in some way |
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| 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' |
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| * Clean should only produce output for 'emerge clean' |
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| # 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? |
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| # 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. |
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| # 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. |
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| # Multiple rsync repos. |
| bug 28796 -- Enable metadata caches for them. |
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| # STICKIES and related enhancements: |
| bug 9379, bug 13616, Aether's config code |
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| # 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) |
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| * Add category support to searches... emerge -s @catgory |
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| @ 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. ** |
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| # 'emerge sync' timestamp awareness -- Make sure IP is associated and not |
| used at random as servers may differ. bug 21794 |
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| ! 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. |
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