Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild cvs fetching.

[Thilo Bangert <bangert@gentoo.org>]

On Monday 24 June 2002 11:58, Mark Cox wrote:
> gentoo-dev,
>
> I is it possible to specify a URI syntax for a cvs repository. ie
> SRC_URI="cvs://foo:bar@a.cvs.repository.org/cvsroot/".
>
> If not is it possible to append a cvs URI syntax to the fetcher, or
> can you specify an alternate bash function like src_fetch in an
> ebuild file similar to the src_compile and src_unpack functions.
>

this has been discussed before and danarmak even had kde3 cvs ebuilds 
before kde3 was actually released. the word back then was, that this 
would at some time become part of the official portage...

i don't know what the current status is, but i know that it is difficult 
decision, because of the support questions that arise (which version do 
you have installed?)

so, as of now, it doesn't work - but you might want to look at 
danarmak's page for examples of how he did it... (using fancy eclasses 
:)

http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/kde3-pre.html

due to the reasons stated above, cvs ebuilds are very unlikely added to 
official portage though...

> Mark
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