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On Monday 03 July 2006 21:00, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> If you have an ebuild with a non-standard pkg_nofetch, please ensure |
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> that you use $SRC_URI instead of $A! |
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> This is because if you have FEATURES=mirror or FEATURES=cvs, attempts to |
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> download all of the source files for digesting or verification will hit |
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> pkg_nofetch and $A is only the subset of $SRC_URI, causing misleading |
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> messages to be displayed about what needs to be downloaded still. |
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whats the problem then ? the user shouldnt have to download all the files in |
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SRC_URI if his USE flags wont need some of it |
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SRC_URI="foo.tar.bz2 bar? ( bar.tar.bz2 )" |
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a user with USE=-bar should not have to download bar.tar.bz2 ... if they do, |
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it's a portage bug ... fix portage, dont make ebuilds ugly |
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-mike |
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