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On 09/19/2016 10:00 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: |
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> Kristian Fiskerstrand schrieb: |
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>>> Why are those ebuilds not live? If upstream doesn't do real releases and |
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>>> can't even be bothered to tag the commit that marks a release, then why |
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>>> are you (or someone else) doing all this work? The snapshot scripts |
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>>> could be replaced by a live ebuild and upstream can handle bugs as they |
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>>> come since they can't be bothered to version their software. |
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>> I would expect because live ebuilds can't be keyworded, so snapshot is |
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>> the correct way to do it. |
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> I think the rule of not keywording live ebuilds originally applied only |
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> to those who fetch git/svn/cvs head. |
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> If a live ebuild fetches a particular revision, then the disadvantage is |
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> still that it can't be mirrored (hence a snapshot is preferable from |
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> user POV), but other than that it can be tested fine. |
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Or a release CD / any offline system, or verifying OpenPGP signature of |
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the distributed tarball, or... |
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