From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FxaZz-00021I-ME for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:24:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k642MHYn023008; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 02:22:17 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k642IAPb020795 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 02:18:10 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.115] (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1CE1645F2 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 02:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <44A9CECF.3090501@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:13:35 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060609) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_nofetch: $A vs. $SRC_URI References: <20060704010015.GA10574@curie-int.vc.shawcable.net> In-Reply-To: <20060704010015.GA10574@curie-int.vc.shawcable.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7E9A4E57943F5EE93D862E53" X-Archives-Salt: 533b5ec8-53ae-49a7-ad8a-8ae2cd38f6e9 X-Archives-Hash: 55fb2cf7484f85ecd54e24bd6516eb0e This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7E9A4E57943F5EE93D862E53 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Robin H. Johnson wrote: > If you have an ebuild with a non-standard pkg_nofetch, please ensure > that you use $SRC_URI instead of $A! >=20 > This is because if you have FEATURES=3Dmirror or FEATURES=3Dcvs, attemp= ts to > download all of the source files for digesting or verification will hit= > pkg_nofetch and $A is only the subset of $SRC_URI, causing misleading > messages to be displayed about what needs to be downloaded still. >=20 > Plasmaroo: could you perhaps change this in the devmanual? >=20 > I'll be looking through the tree to fix any existing occurrences of thi= s. Displaying $SRC_URI is worse for the user, because it displays this weird dependency tree containing USE flags that they should not need to decipher. I don't consider this something that should be "fixed." Thanks, Donnie --------------enig7E9A4E57943F5EE93D862E53 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEqc7PXVaO67S1rtsRAnrmAJ9tD/4Adda03uXi9XuBB1CWWKfEywCg6KOC uGdU3gBdo9I/vF0CEFdHnBg= =UjeN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7E9A4E57943F5EE93D862E53-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list