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package.mask as a directory and PMS 22 Oct 2011 | 07:32 am
Just a quick note, for any repository/overlay maintainers who are have profile package.* or use.* as directories (usually package.mask), please add profile-format = portage-1 to the repositories metad...
repository enhancements 19 Oct 2011 | 10:21 pm
While the support is fairly recent, I wanted to highlight some of the recent portage improvements for repository supported that were released in/before 2.1.10.29 These are configurable per repository ...
Keeping extension docstrings in sync with the native implementation 10 Aug 2010 | 12:01 am
In snakeoil, a core rule of our codebase is that extensions must be optional- this is primarily done to make the initial steps of porting pkgcore to a platform easier, and to enable some usages that a...
reducing dict footprints 4 Aug 2010 | 05:52 pm
In pkgcore back around 2006/2007, we ran into a bit of an issue. Specifically, during certain usage scenarios it was possible to get all package instances loaded into memory, including their cache co...
__del__ without the gc issues 4 Aug 2010 | 04:16 pm
I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while, but over the years I’ve wound up in some code situations where the best solution for a resource reclamation/finalization was a __del__ method- to be c...
So which python version you want? 1 Jun 2010 | 01:20 pm
For pkgcore, we run a pretty comprehensive set of buildslaves targets for testing pkgcore. Specifically python 2.4 python 2.5 python 2.6 unladen swallow; python 2.6 based python 2.7 snapshot (201...
