From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 10193138330 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:53:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4A53E0BBF; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:53:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E8DEAE0B8D for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:53:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from red.yakaraplc.local (host213-123-185-55.in-addr.btopenworld.com [213.123.185.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: chewi) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5265133E5E4 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:53:25 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:53:18 +0100 From: James Le Cuirot To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups Message-ID: <20160914145318.0431b10b@red.yakaraplc.local> In-Reply-To: <20160914155028.4aba988d@gentoo.org> References: <20160913185729.GA8483@asterix.xonet.at> <22488.58879.600347.734505@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <8aa76e3e-0f4b-fbe1-1fbe-979abd25f957@gentoo.org> <20160914152135.3e4b547c@gentoo.org> <20160914155028.4aba988d@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c7cee96d-631b-4336-9105-9a70f5c3eba5 X-Archives-Hash: b6d9362d7e5fd379b5db51768d1f2897 On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200 Alexis Ballier 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