From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29893 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Dec 2002 05:02:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 87 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2002 05:02:26 -0000 Message-ID: <3E02A397.7050402@tkdack.com> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:59:03 +1100 From: Troy Dack User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Ellis Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3487538.1040359160786.JavaMail.ashura666@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <3487538.1040359160786.JavaMail.ashura666@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: cvs ebuilds X-Archives-Salt: d06b9f6b-caaf-4fa7-a66c-a9ea044d1689 X-Archives-Hash: c952d6f24131f8a0b80310ee08baff43 Jon Ellis wrote: > Hi, > > Any comments on this? > > Thanks > > j. > > From: Spider > TO: Jon Ellis > CC: > Date: Fri December 20, 2002 12:48:34 PM JST > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cvs ebuilds > > use -dev for this sort, -user is the wrong place :) > //Spider > > begin quote > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:39:37 +0900 > Jon Ellis wrote: > > >>Is there a 'policy' about cvs ebuilds? For example, i just created a >>ebuild to build jack (jack audio connection kit) from cvs and updated >>ardour to depend on it. >> >>What troubles me is that i created a new sub-dir in my local portage >>to do this (media-sound/jack-cvs). The current jack ebuilds are in >>media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit. Is this the best way to do >>this? Wouldn't it be better to keep the cvs build in same directory? >>Is it possible to do that, the naming was beyond me... From http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/policy.xml#doc_chap2 : "live" cvs.eclass ebuilds are generally only intended for the convenience of developers and should always be masked with a ~[arch] keyword. It is impossible to guarantee the reliability of a "live" cvs.eclass ebuild since the upstream cvs tree may change at any time, which is why they should always be masked. There is some more there that may be of interest to you. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com http://webportage.sf.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list