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From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:53:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160914145318.0431b10b@red.yakaraplc.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160914155028.4aba988d@gentoo.org>

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200
Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> wrote:

> > But seriously, once you've googled the repo, you might notice that
> > it's hosted at github, and that you don't need to create your own
> > snapshot tarballs any more. Want a snapshot from 20150423? Try,
> > 
> > https://github.com/pathscale/libcxxrt/archive/665b0223ee27547175dc327a386fcd88243c7677.tar.gz
> > 
> > Put COMMIT=665b0223ee27547175dc327a386fcd88243c7677 in the ebuild,
> > stick that in $SRC_URI and $S, and then future snapshots will work
> > without modification.  
> 
> that might be better, but how do you map date / $PV to commit ?

You can't.

> remember, we want ebuilds that are as much as possible
> version-agnostic, otherwise it breaks simple copy of ebuilds to bump a
> version...

Ideally yes but this still beats manually preparing a tarball. I use
this approach a lot.

-- 
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer


  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-14 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-13 18:57 [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups Michael Mair-Keimberger
2016-09-13 19:21 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-09-13 23:25 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-09-13 23:49 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-09-14  2:55   ` Kent Fredric
2016-09-14  5:54   ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-09-14 12:45     ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-09-14 13:21       ` Alexis Ballier
2016-09-14 13:38         ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-09-14 13:50           ` Alexis Ballier
2016-09-14 13:53             ` James Le Cuirot [this message]
2016-09-14 13:55               ` James Le Cuirot
2016-09-14 14:14                 ` Kent Fredric
2016-09-14 14:32                 ` Alexis Ballier
2016-09-14 14:04             ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-09-14 14:41               ` Alexis Ballier
2016-09-14 16:20                 ` Kent Fredric
2016-09-14 20:13                   ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-09-19  7:51         ` Daniel Campbell
2016-09-19  7:55           ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2016-09-19  8:00             ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2016-09-19 10:06               ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2016-09-19  8:26           ` Alexis Ballier

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