Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC : New ebuild function pkg_create for creating corespondent sorce tarball

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:25:02 +0300
Alin Năstac <mrness@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I was asked to discuss here a portage enhancement proposed by me [1].
> 
> Basically I need a pkg_create() that will be executed only in the
> context of the upcoming "ebuild ${PF}.ebuild create" command.
> 
> The package where I need it is app-mobilephone/bitpim. The upstream
> doesn't offer a source tarball, so I need to construct it myself from
> their svn repository. Up till recently, I used some hackery in
> pkg_setup() to create it
> (see the ebuild), but now "ebuild $PF.ebuild setup" verify the digest
> before running pkg_setup().
> 
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185567

Two questions:
- are there more packages that could benefit from this?
- is there a particular reason this has to be integrated into the
ebuild and should not be handled by an ordinary script?

Marius

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