Note: Due to technical difficulties, the Archives are currently not up to date.
GMANE provides an alternative service for most mailing lists. c.f. bug 424647
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:40:57PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> Quoting PMS, Chapter 8:
>
> "All ebuild-defined variables discussed in this chapter must be defined
> independently of any system, profile or tree dependent data, and must
> not vary depending upon the ebuild phase."
>
> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=blob_plain;f=ebuild-vars.tex;hb=HEAD
>
> This is very inconvinent rule for example, github tarballs where the
> directory changes with every release. I've used this:
>
> src_unpack() {
> unpack ${A}
> cd *-${PN}-*
> S=`pwd`
> }
>
> In $PORTDIR/sys-fs/udisks-glue/udisks-glue-1.2.0.ebuild to get S=
> defined as:
>
> fernandotcl-udisks-glue-f9b4839
>
> Where "f9b4839" changes...
>
>
> Far as I know, S= isn't used to generate metadata cache, so it's PMS
> that need fixing for it's wording:
>
> "All ebuild-defined variables used to generate metadata cache, discussed
> in this chapter..."
Yes, please :)
I've used that method to work around some github-tarballed packages
as well, seems to work pretty well.
Thanks,
--
Alex Alexander | wired
+ Gentoo Linux Developer
++ www.linuxized.com
|
|
