Re: [gentoo-devhelp] multiple GIT repositories - how?

[Yixun Lan <dlan@gentoo.org>]

On 19:03 Wed 04 Mar     , Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:16:55 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > On 03/04/2015 02:41:55 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> > > On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:41:32 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I'd like to write an ebuild  www-client/qupzilla-9999.
> > > > For this I need to fetch from several repositories like
> > > > 
> > > > EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla.git"
> > > > EGIT_SECONDARY=("https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/Videoner.git"
> > > >                 "https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/CopyTitle.git"
> > > >                 "https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/MailHandle.git")
> > > > 
> > > > How can this be achieved?
> > > 
> > > Provide them as a list (or array) in EGIT_REPO_URI,
> > > from git-r3.eclass manual page:
> > > 
> > >        EGIT_REPO_URI (REQUIRED)
> > >               URIs  to the repository, e.g. git://foo, https://foo. If
> > > multiple URIs are provided, the eclass will consider them
> > >               as fallback URIs to try if the first URI does not work.
> > > 
> > >               It can be overriden via env using ${PN}_LIVE_REPO
> > > variable.
> > > 
> > >               Can be a whitespace-separated list or an array.
> > > 
> > >               Example:
> > >               EGIT_REPO_URI="git://a/b.git https://c/d.git"
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't understand this. I've tried to add
> > qupzilla_LIVE_PRO=("https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/Videoner.git"
> >                    "https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/CopyTitle.git"
> >                    "https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/MailHandle.git")
> > to /etc/portage/env/www-client/qupzilla
> > 
> > In addition, I've tried
> > EGIT_REPO_URI=("https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla.git"
> >                "https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/Videoner.git"
> >                "https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/CopyTitle.git"
> >                "https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/MailHandle.git")
> > 
> > within the ebuild, but nothing helps.
> > What am I missing?
> 
> Sorry, as Justin pointed in another mail, I misunderstood meaning
> of additionals URIs: they are fallback links to the same
> project.
> 
> Another idea: maybe you should separate plugins to their own
> ebuilds? This will solve URI issue and will follow Gentoo
> unbundling policy nicely.
> 
Hi Helmut
  technically you can still do that, although we don't encourage to ..
all you need is call git-2_src_unpack several times in src_unpack phase
( in my example, I use git-2.eclass, you should use git-r3 now )

[1] http://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/virtualization.git/tree/app-emulation/xen-tools/xen-tools-9999.ebuild

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