Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC : New ebuild function pkg_create for creating corespondent sorce tarball

[Vlastimil Babka]

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Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Alin Năstac wrote:
>> The upstream doesn't offer a source tarball, so I need to construct
>> it myself from their svn repository.
> If your aim is to create an ebuild for a specific version, you might as
> well checkout stuff yourself and let Gentoo mirror the generated tarball
> (your mail doesn't talk about RESTRICT=fetch). If you let Gentoo mirror
> the tarball, users are likely to be happier because they'll get the file
> faster and in a more reliable way.

I think he wants to do exactly that, but having the code needed for this
right in the ebuild, so it can benefit from varibles like PV and
versionator eclass for converting PV to e.g. CVS tags... I think it's
quite elegant for this, and that you don't need another script
maintained somewhere else. If there was also switch in the respective
new 'ebuild foo.ebuild src_create' command to automatically scp files
specified by mirror://gentoo in SRC_URI to the right place... mmm :)

The only downside is that users will download something that they won't
find often useful (but think local overlay bumps and bugzilla reports on
version bump that just renaming the ebuild works?). OTOH, while this
might be useful for more than few packages (I can also think of some),
it's not too many to clutter the tree significantly.

> Or am I missing something?
>
> Cheers,
> -jkt
>
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Vlastimil Babka (Caster)
Gentoo/Java
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