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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@flameeyes.eu>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:43:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51272189.6020505@flameeyes.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAATnKFCddfu9J+V2PqUjMW=ZOhjf9NMRGhNH8=5Y4Zv-Hc8EKg@mail.gmail.com>

On 22/02/2013 08:37, Kent Fredric wrote:
> I'd make sure to add some sort of easy support to switch to
> snapshotted tar.gz installs instead of live git checkouts, ie:
> 
> GH_SNAPSHOT=deadbeef  # use commit id 'deadbeef' by fetching a tar.gz
> from github instead of a git clone

This is not going to fly because a live git checkout does not need
digests in the manifest, but a tar.gz snapshot does.

I'm not against having a common way to deal with github project as they
are common, but just having a wrapper for a few variables is not worth
it IMHO.

-- 
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
flameeyes@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-22  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-22  6:53 [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
2013-02-22  7:37 ` Kent Fredric
2013-02-22  7:43   ` Diego Elio Pettenò [this message]
2013-02-22  9:51     ` Kent Fredric
2013-02-22 13:49       ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-02-22 14:00 ` Michał Górny
2013-02-22 15:09   ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-22 16:19     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-02-22 16:30       ` Ian Stakenvicius

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