Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: an eclass for github snapshots?

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:47:41 +0100
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:36:00 +0800
> Ben <yngwin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 12 March 2012 02:27, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:25:38 -0700 (PDT)
> > > Leho Kraav <leho@kraav.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Monday, May 30, 2011 9:30:02 AM UTC+3, Michał Górny wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Right now, a quick 'grep -l github.*tarball' shows that there
> > >> > are about 147 ebuilds in portage using github snapshots. This
> > >> > evaluates to 83 different packages.
> > >> >
> > >> > The problem with github is that it suffixes the tarballs with
> > >> > a complete git commit id. This means that the `S' variable
> > >> > in the ebuild needs to refer to a long hash changing randomly.
> > >> > Right now, the problem is handled in a number of ways:
> > >> >
> > >> > 1) (from app-admin/rudy)
> > >> > 2) (app-emacs/calfw and suggested solution for Sunrise)
> > >> > 3) (app-misc/bgrep)
> > >> > 4) (app-misc/tmux-mem-cpu-load)
> > >> >
> > >> > What I'd like to do is creating a small github.eclass,
> > >> > encapsulating a common, nice way of handling the S issue. I
> > >> > guess the best solution would be to git with something like 2)
> > >> > above, with the eclass providing github_src_unpack() for EAPIs
> > >> > 2+.
> > >>
> > >> What is the current situation with this one? Every once in a
> > >> while I run into a github ebuild I need to create and I am not
> > >> really sure what to do with it.
> > >>
> > >> Right now 2) seems like the safest approach. But did anything get
> > >> into EAPI?
> > >
> > > You mean eclass? I submitted one for review but didn't get much of
> > > positive feedback on it. I'll commit it anyway soon, just let me
> > > double check and do some testing.
> > 
> > +1 from me. I think it would be useful to have a standard way of
> > handling this.
> 
> Attaching my current conceptual eclass. I've tested it with github,
> gitweb and bitbucket. It won't work with gitorious but their snapshot
> download mechanism is broken anyway (they like to submit 'try again
> later' in plaintext).

Committed.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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