From: Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] IBTK/GATOS
Date: Mon Jul 23 10:59:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01072320002200.00599@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1DCB85BD45DED211B12D009027279E4F47680E@murcury>
On Monday 23 July 2001 18:40, you wrote:
> I'm working on an ebuild for GATOS which uses the ibtk gui library.
>
> It looks like the only way to get the sources for GATOS & IBTK is by CVS.
> Is there a way to use cvs as a SRC_URI? CVS doesn't seem to be a supported
> URI from what I saw in the RFC. For now I've grabbed it myself, built
> tar.bz2s and put them on my apache server.
We've discussed using cvs/cvsup/rsync/whatever as SRC_URI and for now it's
far away down on the todo list.
The reason: cvs-based builds do not have distinct versions (not ones that
change with every cvs revision), they have timestamps and individual file
revisions instead. So we can't compare them with std. non-cvs releases and
see which one is newer.
If you must use cvs, try to get a URL for a specific snapshot of a specific
date. If you can't, write a script to make cvs download a *specific* revision
and tar it to keep in distfiles. Doing the same wih the latest cvs revision
is more or less deprecated.
--
Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer
Matan, Israel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-23 16:58 UTC|newest]
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2001-07-23 9:43 [gentoo-dev] IBTK/GATOS Sean Mitchell
2001-07-23 10:11 ` Damon M. Conway
2001-07-23 10:59 ` Dan Armak [this message]
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2001-07-23 10:16 Sean Mitchell
2001-07-23 10:23 Sean Mitchell
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