Tim Harder

support profiles/updates

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Initially, for binpkg updating and vdb updating. Longer term, investigate (and plot out the various states possible)- specifically if it's actually worthwhile to do runtime rewriting of binhost pkgs being...

Currently it appears that calls like observer.debug() will output things even when --debug is not set. This might require revamping the observer setup a bit.

Now that we're rolling a git repo for gentoo, I think it would be handy to have automated tests for making sure development doesn't accidentally make metadata regeneration time noticeably...

write a quickpkg-workalike tool for pkgcore (name to be decided)

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Basic functionality should be similar to quickpkg from portage. Name ideas: ppkg, pbinpkg

write an ekeyword analog (pkeyword?)

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It would be nice to have a tool that not only could set keywords on ebuilds, but also check the depchains and provide lists of deps also requiring keywording or...

See commit c392804. Currently we're using a class level attribute on ProfileNode to store a repo_id -> repoconfig mapping that is created during the config process.

look into when the binpkg cache is updated

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Currently when running pmerge from the git repo as a regular user, it errors out with the following if you hit Ctrl-C when it asks if you want to merge...

improve pplugincache failure message

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Currently the error message in pkgcore/plugin.py is lacking what namespace should be passed to pplugincache to manually regen the plugins, e.g. pkgcheck.plugins is needed when regenerating pkgcheck plugins, as well...

Both dispatch-conf and etc-update have interesting features and uses that the other lacks. It would be useful to have an equivalent external to portage with good testsuite support. Possible names...