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Zac Medico wrote:
| Hi everyone,
|
| It might good to add support for a new RESTRICT=live value in
| ebuilds. By specifying this value, an ebuild would be able to
| indicate that it uses src_unpack() to download sources from some
| type of live repository such as cvs, darcs, git, mercurial, or svn.
|
| This new RESTRICT=live value would be useful in at least a couple of
| ways. One is that it could be used to implement a @live-rebuild
| package set that's based on RESTRICT instead of INHERITED [1]. It
| could also be used to implement a more accurate LIVEVCS.stable check
| in repoman, again based on RESTRICT instead of INHERITED [2].
|
| We already have plans for more advanced live ebuild support,
| including live update detection, that will involve an EAPI bump [3].
| However, the RESTRICT=live value is a simple enhancement that we can
| add now, without the need for an EAPI bump. Thoughts?
|
| Zac
|
| [1]
|
http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/zmedico/2008/07/31/live_rebuild_package_set
| [2] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/portage?view=rev&rev=3457
| [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182028

+1

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Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org"
Gentoo Linux

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