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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_nofetch: $A vs. $SRC_URI
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:42:12
Message-Id: 200607041532.47374.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_nofetch: $A vs. $SRC_URI by Mike Frysinger
1 On Tuesday 04 July 2006 14:45, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Monday 03 July 2006 21:00, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
3 > > If you have an ebuild with a non-standard pkg_nofetch, please ensure
4 > > that you use $SRC_URI instead of $A!
5 > >
6 > > This is because if you have FEATURES=mirror or FEATURES=cvs, attempts to
7 > > download all of the source files for digesting or verification will hit
8 > > pkg_nofetch and $A is only the subset of $SRC_URI, causing misleading
9 > > messages to be displayed about what needs to be downloaded still.
10 >
11 > whats the problem then ?
12
13 sorry, i just re-read your message ... perhaps a better fix would be to not
14 force people to download all the packages when something has fetch
15 restrictions ?
16 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_nofetch: $A vs. $SRC_URI "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>