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From: Avuton Olrich <avuton@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Live ebuilds management.
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:51:49
Message-Id: 3aa654a40903141251n1d9025a9p12bb8727ae1939a1@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Live ebuilds management. by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Ciaran McCreesh
2 <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:22:16 +0100
4 > Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus@g.o> wrote:
5 >> But in comment 4 user ask about updates itself. If we have live
6 >> package and revision does not change it is pointless waste of
7 >> resources to recompile it usualy.
8
9 > * Allowing installed SCM ebuilds to identify the revision with which
10 >  they were built. This isn't overly difficult, once you get around
11 >  things like CVS not really having a revision.
12
13 By the way, update-live-ebuilds[1] gets around this by doing sha1sum
14 on certain parts of the CVS directory. CVS and TLA are the only
15 eclasses which this should be necessary. This, obviously, means a
16 update is done first and the hash is figured out afterwards, making it
17 rather limiting.
18
19 1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-725867-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-ule.html
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