Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

[Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:45:58 -0400
Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 09/14/2016 01:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > 
> > We had a review of such files before the git conversion:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/550434
> > 
> > Especially, there's a list of "maintainer scripts" in comment #13.
> > At the time, we didn't do anything about them. There are very few of
> > such files (namely, 12 when that comment was written) so the space
> > taken by them is negligible.
> >   
> 
> I'll take the low hanging fruit:
> 
>   * dev-libs/collada-dom/files/take_snapshot.sh
>   * sys-libs/libcxxrt/files/prepare_snapshot.sh
> 
> Those two are completely trivial; clone a repo, rm -rf .git, tar it
> up.


Guess you never had to maintain packages whose releases are only
snapshots. They're trivial but it's a waste of time to re-assemble all
the bits every couple of months when you want to make a snapshot.

Questions one needs to answer:

- What SCM is used ?
- What is the URI ?
- How to fetch it ?
- What should be cleaned up after fetching ?
- What dirname to use so that it matches ebuilds' $S ?
- What compression to use so that it matches SRC_URI ?




Those scripts are made to automate this, and as you can see are closely
related to ebuilds, and thus fit perfectly next to them.