[gentoo-dev] cvs-ebuilds

[gentoo-dev] cvs-ebuilds

[Timo Horstschäfer]

A few day ago i thought about ebuilds without a version number.
The thing is to fetch all files via cvs and then do the things you do
with a normal ebuild.

After fetching the files all the content will be packed into a bz2
archive and saved in /usr/portage/distfiles/
i.e. if i emerge again the stored bz2archive will be extracted and
synced with cvs again.
So i can always can get the newest version without waiting for an ebuild.

Of course those packages are marked ~* anytime and nobody can promise,
the compiling won't fail.

Another feature could be to save the bz2 archive with the date of
fetching in its name.
Then i could use an old archive if there is i great bug in the newest files.

I want to read some opinions about this, it's just an idea.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] cvs-ebuilds

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 03:13 pm, Timo Horstschäfer wrote:
> A few day ago i thought about ebuilds without a version number.

there's a bug open atm to get a '_cvs' version tag to go along with '_alpha', 
'_beta', and all that but development of it has been slow (or not at all)

> The thing is to fetch all files via cvs and then do the things you do
> with a normal ebuild.

how does any of this differ from the cvs eclass ?  (emerge portage-manpages && 
man cvs.eclass)
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] cvs-ebuilds

[brettholcomb]

Maybe I'm missing something here but  what does this do that the current ebuilds that access CVS don't do?  The current ebuilds - using the CVS eclass fetch the most current CVS version, then you do whatever you need to do just like a regular ebuild.   If  you  need the updated CVS you just emerge again.

> 
> From: Timo Horstschäfer <timo.horstschaefer@gmail.com>
> Date: 2005/06/01 Wed PM 03:13:44 EDT
> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-dev] cvs-ebuilds
> 
> A few day ago i thought about ebuilds without a version number.
> The thing is to fetch all files via cvs and then do the things you do
> with a normal ebuild.
> 
> After fetching the files all the content will be packed into a bz2
> archive and saved in /usr/portage/distfiles/
> i.e. if i emerge again the stored bz2archive will be extracted and
> synced with cvs again.
> So i can always can get the newest version without waiting for an ebuild.
> 
> Of course those packages are marked ~* anytime and nobody can promise,
> the compiling won't fail.
> 
> Another feature could be to save the bz2 archive with the date of
> fetching in its name.
> Then i could use an old archive if there is i great bug in the newest files.
> 
> I want to read some opinions about this, it's just an idea.
> 
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> 
> 

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