Re: [gentoo-dev] Smalltalk/X

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@prosalg.no>]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Marko Mikulicic wrote:

> I don't understand. Does this mean that those packages cannot be
> download from the original url but only from your mirror. This
> solves a problem, but raises other: if the package is not in the mirrors,
> or the mirror is down, or the package is not yet in CVS ?

As you can specify a sequence of mirrors in /etc/make.conf, it is less
likely that our mirrors will be down than that
djs.ddid.shf.in/~varajana/tmp/tmp/foo/foo/tmp.tgz will be :P

>   This means that while I'm writing the package I cannot test it
> completly (at least not the download) until it is copied to the mirrors.

That is a correct, but should be considered a minor matter, as this step
will be performed by the developer committing your ebuild for you.

>   What SRC_URI should I put in the .ebuild ? Only 
> http:/nowhere/${PN}-${PV}.tar.gz ?

I guess that is okay. http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/${PN}-${PV}.tar.gz is
also okay, as this (most likely) is where the package will reside (before
it is spread to our mirrors. 

In fact, I think just "${PN}-${PV}.tar.gz" should work, but I have not
tested that.

Karl T