[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: an eclass for github snapshots?

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Mon, 30 May 2011, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 30/05/2011 alle 08.27 +0200, Michał Górny ha scritto:
>> S="${WORKDIR}/solutious-${PN}-*"
>>
>> I'm surprised if that actually works. I'd say that seems not
>> PMS-compliant but in fact PMS seems to almost not mention S.

> Because you didn't follow the whole eclass tree ;)

> ruby-ng handles the star as a special case, given how many of those
> we had to use over time, [...]

But it is not compliant with PMS:
"If S is assigned in the global scope of an ebuild, then the
restrictions of section 12.2 for global variables apply." (section 12.1)
"Global variables must only contain invariant values." (section 12.2)

Ulrich