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| 2 | Pkgcore/Portage differences |
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| 3 | =========================== |
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| 4 | |
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| 5 | Disclaimer |
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| 6 | ---------- |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | Pkgcore moves fairly fast in terms of development- will strive to keep this doc |
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| 9 | upto date, but it may lag. |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | -------------------------- |
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| 12 | Ebuild environment changes |
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| 13 | -------------------------- |
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| 14 | |
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| 15 | All changes are either glep33 related, or a tightening of the restrictions on |
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| 16 | the env to block common snafus that localize the ebuilds environment to that |
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| 17 | machine. |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | - portageq based functions are disabled in the global scope. Reasoning for this |
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| 20 | is that of QA- has_version/best_version **must not** affect the generated |
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| 21 | metadata. As such, portageq calls in the global scope are disabled. |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | - inherit is disabled in all phases but depend and setup. Folks no longer do |
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| 24 | it, but inherit from within one of the build/install phases is now actively |
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| 25 | blocked. |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | - ebuild env is now *effectively* akin to suspending the process, and restarting |
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| 28 | it. Essentially, transitioning between ebuild phases, the ebuild environment |
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| 29 | is snapshotted, cleaned of irrevelent data (bash forced vars for example, or |
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| 30 | vars that pkgcore sets for the local system on each shift into a phase), and |
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| 31 | saved. Portage does this partially (re-execs ebuilds/eclasses, thus stomping |
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| 32 | the env on each phase change), pkgcore does it fully. As such, pkgcore is |
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| 33 | capable of glep33, while portage is not (env fixes are the basis of glep33). |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | - ebuild.sh now protects itself from basic fiddling. Ebuild generated state |
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| 36 | **must** work as long as the EAPI is the same, regardless of the generating |
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| 37 | portage version, and the portage version that later uses the saved state |
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| 38 | (simple example, generated with portage-2.51, if portage 3 is EAPI compliant |
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| 39 | with that env, it must not allow it's internal bash changes to break the env). |
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| 40 | As such, certain funcs are not modifiable by the ebuild- namely, internal |
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| 41 | portage/pkgcore functionality, hasq/useq for example. Those functions that |
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| 42 | are read-only also are not saved in the ebuild env (they should be supplied |
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| 43 | by the portage/pkgcore instance reloading the env). |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | - ebuild.sh is daemonized. Upshot of it is that regen is roughly 2x faster |
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| 46 | (careful reuse of ebuild.sh instances rather then forcing bash to spawn |
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| 47 | all over). Additional upshot of this is that their are bidirectional |
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| 48 | communication pipes between ebuild.sh and the python parent- env inspection, |
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| 49 | logging, passing requests up to the python side (has_version/best_version |
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| 50 | for example) are now handled within the existing processes. Design of it |
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| 51 | from the python side is that of an extensible event handler, as such it's |
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| 52 | extremely easy to add new commands in, or special case certain things. |
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| 53 | |
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| 54 | ----------------------- |
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| 55 | Repository Enhancements |
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| 56 | ----------------------- |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | Pkgcore internally uses a sane/uniform repository abstraction- benefits being |
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| 59 | |
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| 60 | - repository class (which implements the accessing of the on disk/remote tree) |
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| 61 | is pluggable. Remote vdb/portdir is doable, as is having your repository |
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| 62 | tree ran strictly from downloaded metadata (for example), or running from a |
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| 63 | tree stored in a tarball/zip file (mildly crazy, but it's doable). |
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| 64 | |
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| 65 | - seperated repository instances. We've not thrown out overlays (as paludis |
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| 66 | did), but pkgcore doesn't force every new repository to be an overlay of the |
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| 67 | 'master' PORTDIR as portage does. |
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| 68 | |
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| 69 | - optimized repository classes- for the usual vdb and ebuild repository |
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| 70 | (those being on disk backwards compatible with portage 2.x), the number of |
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| 71 | syscalls required was drastically reduced, with ondisk info (what packages |
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| 72 | available per category for example) cached. It is a space vs time trade |
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| 73 | off, but the space trade off is neglible (couple of dict with worst case, |
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| 74 | 66k mappings)- as is, portage's listdir caching consumed a bit more memory |
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| 75 | and was slower, so all in all a gain (mainly it's faster with using |
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| 76 | slightly less memory then portages caching). |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | - unique package instances yielded from repository. Pkgcore uses a package |
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| 79 | abstraction internally for accessing metadata/version/category, etc- all |
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| 80 | instances returned from repositories are unique immutable instances. |
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| 81 | Gain of it is that if you've got dev-util/diffball-0.7.1 sitting in memory |
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| 82 | already, it will return that instance instead of generating a new one- and |
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| 83 | since metadata is accessed via the instance, you get at most **one** load |
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| 84 | from the cache backend per instance in memory- cache pull only occurs when |
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| 85 | required also. As such, far faster for when doing random package accessing |
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| 86 | and storing of said packages (think repoman, dependency resolution, etc). |
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