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@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +# 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. + + + |