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On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:52:43 -0700 |
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Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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> As a substitute for the previously discussed RESTRICT=live value[1], |
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> I'd now like you to consider an equivalent PROPERTIES=live-sources |
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> setting. By specifying PROPERTIES=live-sources, an ebuild will be |
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> able to indicate that it uses src_unpack() to download sources from |
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> some type of live repository such as cvs, darcs, git, mercurial, or |
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> svn. |
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You're using a single value to mean: |
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* include me in some 'live-sources' set |
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* I need some kind of locking in src_unpack |
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At the very least, the two should be separate attributes. But the |
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locking probably shouldn't be an attribute at all -- the 'flock' shell |
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utility can be used instead to get much more fine-grained locking. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |