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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:31:48
Message-Id: 1228347105.2927.1.camel@keitaro
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 Le mardi 02 décembre 2008 à 16:50 -0800, Robin H. Johnson a écrit :
2 > As another major pain, for ebuilds where the homepage changes every
3 > version in
4 > some predictable pattern, you have now increased the maintenance
5 > burden. Before
6 > we could just copy the ebuild if we had a suitable variable expression
7 > in the
8 > HOMEPAGE variable, but now we'd have to edit it into metadata.xml as
9 > well.
10 >
11
12 actually I thought it was strictly forbidden to put any kind of variable
13 in the HOMEPAGE value. Did I miss something, is it an old restriction
14 that doesn't matter anymore ?
15
16 --
17 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
18 Gentoo

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>