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From: Mikael Hallendal <micke@×××××××××××.se>
To: "Gentoo Dev." <gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE variables in SRC_URI
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 02:22:21
Message-Id: 1002010918.26460.13.camel@fry
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] USE variables in SRC_URI by Daniel Robbins
1 tis 2001-10-02 klockan 08.40 skrev Daniel Robbins:
2 > Hi devs,
3 >
4 > I just added a new pre-release version of Portage to gentoo-src (developers
5 > only) CVS that allows you to use USE variables in the SRC_URI as follows:
6 >
7 > SRC_URI="foo? ( http://www.foo.bar/meep.tar.gz )"
8 >
9 > We will gradually start using these features. But right now I need testers.
10 > If MAINTAINER is set to "yes", then all the USE variables in the SRC_URI will
11 > default to "on", so that maintainers will be forced to test all SRC_URIs and
12 > also cause complete digests to be generated. You can also use the new "!foo?"
13 > syntax in SRC_URIs and soon in DEPENDS and RDEPENDS as well. This new version
14 > of Portage also adds archive size to the digest files and uses a new file-based
15 > DEPEND and RDEPEND passing method (for behind-the-scenes bash <-> python
16 > integration.)
17
18 Hi!
19
20 This is great!
21
22 Both foo? in SRC_URI and !foo? is both really needed.
23
24 Regards,
25 Mikael Hallendal
26
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Re: [gentoo-dev] USE variables in SRC_URI Morgan Christiansson <sft3905@××××××××××××.se>