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On 22 February 2013 19:53, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <mva@×××.name> wrote: |
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> Hi there! |
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> Since we have tons of ebuild (including -9999) for software, that uses |
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> GitHub for sourcecode hosting — I've got an idea to write something |
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> like GitHub eclass, which will ease creating of such ebuilds (by |
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> providing "sugar" functions) and, (main goal for me) by adding |
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> possibility to switch between forks (by redefining variables on emerge |
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> run). For example (theoretical usecase): |
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> We have, for example, lua-socket-9999, that uses: |
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> GH_AUTHOR=diegonehab |
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> GH_PROJECT=lua-socket |
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> GH_BRANCH=unstable |
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> So, then I fork it and provide some features. And then I want to |
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> reemerge it from my fork, but I don't want to rewrite ebuild. So, then I do: |
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> # GH_AUTHOR="msva" GH_BRANCH=master emerge =lua-socket-9999 |
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> and it repulls sources from my fork, reemerge it and installs fine. |
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I'd make sure to add some sort of easy support to switch to |
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snapshotted tar.gz installs instead of live git checkouts, ie: |
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GH_SNAPSHOT=deadbeef # use commit id 'deadbeef' by fetching a tar.gz |
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from github instead of a git clone |
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Kent |
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