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On Monday 23 July 2001 18:40, you wrote: |
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> I'm working on an ebuild for GATOS which uses the ibtk gui library. |
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> It looks like the only way to get the sources for GATOS & IBTK is by CVS. |
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> Is there a way to use cvs as a SRC_URI? CVS doesn't seem to be a supported |
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> URI from what I saw in the RFC. For now I've grabbed it myself, built |
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> tar.bz2s and put them on my apache server. |
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We've discussed using cvs/cvsup/rsync/whatever as SRC_URI and for now it's |
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far away down on the todo list. |
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The reason: cvs-based builds do not have distinct versions (not ones that |
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change with every cvs revision), they have timestamps and individual file |
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revisions instead. So we can't compare them with std. non-cvs releases and |
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see which one is newer. |
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If you must use cvs, try to get a URL for a specific snapshot of a specific |
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date. If you can't, write a script to make cvs download a *specific* revision |
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and tar it to keep in distfiles. Doing the same wih the latest cvs revision |
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is more or less deprecated. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Matan, Israel |
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