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 61CF5138330 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:46:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C3AEE0B87; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:46:06 +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 6CC91E094C for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:46:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-98-218-46-55.hsd1.md.comcast.net [98.218.46.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mjo) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 12CFE33E5E4 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:46:03 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20160913185729.GA8483@asterix.xonet.at> <22488.58879.600347.734505@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> From: Michael Orlitzky Message-ID: <8aa76e3e-0f4b-fbe1-1fbe-979abd25f957@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:45:58 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 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 In-Reply-To: <22488.58879.600347.734505@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a2cd8295-9c9b-4115-a0a3-2e684a5b93f5 X-Archives-Hash: 8c19956b37f76f9c5c5beb7d18552263 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. * sys-libs/libcxx/files/prepare_snapshot.sh This one's only marginally more complicated because it uses find/xargs to remove all ".svn" directories (why not use svn export?). It also appears unused, now that there are regular releases being made upstream. * sys-apps/superiotool/files/make-tarball.sh Another trivial three-liner; svn export and tar it up. * net-misc/ntp/files/man-pages/genmans.sh Generating man pages from HTML can be done in src_compile().