Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] eclass proposal - savedconfig.eclass
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:06:37
Message-Id: 200702010403.06140.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] eclass proposal - savedconfig.eclass by Daniel Black
1 On Thursday 01 February 2007, Daniel Black wrote:
2 > On Thursday 01 February 2007 18:48, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Thursday 01 February 2007, Daniel Black wrote:
4 > > > Also creates the following symlinks to it
5 > >
6 > > i dont see much value in these symlinks ... what do they gain us ?
7 >
8 > An easy way to find the closest config when merging a revision/version bump
9 > of the same package. There are probably some cleaner ways with portage foo.
10
11 yeah ... i think if the user wants a .config to apply to all versions, then
12 they name it ${PN} ... if they want to have certain versions have certain
13 configs, then those would be ${P}
14
15 i think the busybox ebuild does this scan already and it boils down to a
16 pretty simple for loop ... {${PF},${P},${PN}}
17 -mike