Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox

[Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org>]

On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:37, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Daniel D Jones schreef:
> > I'm aware that Deer Park IS Firefox but my understanding was that Deer
> > Park was a nightly release build and not the official 1.5 release.  I
> > thought it was the equivalent of grabbing the most recent source (at the
> > time the package was created) from CVS rather than getting the official
> > release source.  Am I confused?
>
> Yes, you are. Have a look at the ebuild:
> # $Header:
> /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r11.
>ebuild,v 1.1 2006/02/01 22:13:20 anarchy Exp $
...
> As you see, the source tarball is being downloaded from the releases
> folder of Mozilla.org's ftp, not any CVS or nightly build folder.
>
> Ebuilds from development trees such as CVS or "nightlies" are clearly so
> marked in their title, if they exist.
>
> For example, I use an ebuild for Krusader (provided by on the Homepage)
> which builds from the project's CVS tree, and it is rightfully called
> "krusader-cvs" rather than the normal "krusader" ebuild provided by
> Portage.

Thanks for the info and for clearing up my confusion.

> If an ebuild doesn't say it's compiling from CVS, it isn't. And of
> course, you can always just open it in a text editor and /look/...

I'm still learning how Portage works.  I wasn't aware that ebuilds were that 
straightforward.

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