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From: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:52:02
Message-Id: CAATnKFAa61sWLVcB_vs+R2NghR67uB3zP18kr3b=OWcy_tTLJA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 On 22 February 2013 20:43, Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> wrote:
2 > On 22/02/2013 08:37, Kent Fredric wrote:
3 >> I'd make sure to add some sort of easy support to switch to
4 >> snapshotted tar.gz installs instead of live git checkouts, ie:
5 >>
6 >> GH_SNAPSHOT=deadbeef # use commit id 'deadbeef' by fetching a tar.gz
7 >> from github instead of a git clone
8 >
9 > This is not going to fly because a live git checkout does not need
10 > digests in the manifest, but a tar.gz snapshot does.
11
12 Though surely you could have behaviour that differs based on the right
13 things being specified, so that turning on GH_SNAPSHOT= becomes a
14 helper that generates SRC_URI , which in turn makes it so you can
15 satisfy the manifest digest requirement.
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19 Kent

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>