Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due ricmm retirement

[James Broadhead]

On 22 November 2011 20:31, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
>>>> Due ricmm retirement the following packages need a new maintainer:
>>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>> net-misc/youtube-dl
>>>>
>>>
>>> I use this a lot, so I'll take it.
>>>
>>
>> Just noticed that hanno and zmedico have been bumping it, so if you
>> guys want, we can co-maintain. =)
>>
>
> Weird timing: I added a live ebuild for this program to my personal
> overlay[1] yesterday. I'm not sure what your opinion on live ebuilds
> in the tree happens to be, but I would be happy to move it to gx86.
>
> [1] https://bitbucket.org/floppym/floppym-overlay/src/default/net-misc/youtube-dl

I was working on a script to auto-update the ebuild to the latest
release yesterday. Obviously, it has enough people interested in it!

While no tarballs are ever released, they suggest that you do the
following to pull the latest release:

wget --quiet http://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/raw/master/LATEST_VERSION
PV=`cat LATEST_VERSION`
SRC_URI="http://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/raw/${PV}/youtube-dl"

but I drew a blank as to how to integrate that into an ebuild without
some hackery.