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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:25:02 +0300 |
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Alin Năstac <mrness@g.o> wrote: |
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> I was asked to discuss here a portage enhancement proposed by me [1]. |
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> Basically I need a pkg_create() that will be executed only in the |
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> context of the upcoming "ebuild ${PF}.ebuild create" command. |
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> The package where I need it is app-mobilephone/bitpim. The upstream |
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> doesn't offer a source tarball, so I need to construct it myself from |
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> their svn repository. Up till recently, I used some hackery in |
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> pkg_setup() to create it |
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> (see the ebuild), but now "ebuild $PF.ebuild setup" verify the digest |
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> before running pkg_setup(). |
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> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185567 |
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Two questions: |
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- are there more packages that could benefit from this? |
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- is there a particular reason this has to be integrated into the |
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ebuild and should not be handled by an ordinary script? |
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Marius |
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