Re: [gentoo-dev] Defining S= from ebuild phase, src_unpack() ?

[Alex Alexander]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:40:57PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> Quoting PMS, Chapter 8:
>
> "All ebuild-defined variables discussed in this chapter must be defined
> independently of any system, profile or tree dependent data, and must
> not vary depending upon the ebuild phase."
>
> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=blob_plain;f=ebuild-vars.tex;hb=HEAD
>
> This is very inconvinent rule for example, github tarballs where the
> directory changes with every release. I've used this:
>
> src_unpack() {
> 	unpack ${A}
> 	cd *-${PN}-*
> 	S=`pwd`
> }
>
> In $PORTDIR/sys-fs/udisks-glue/udisks-glue-1.2.0.ebuild to get S=
> defined as:
>
> fernandotcl-udisks-glue-f9b4839
>
> Where "f9b4839" changes...
>
>
> Far as I know, S= isn't used to generate metadata cache, so it's PMS
> that need fixing for it's wording:
>
> "All ebuild-defined variables used to generate metadata cache, discussed
> in this chapter..."

Yes, please :)

I've used that method to work around some github-tarballed packages
as well, seems to work pretty well.

Thanks,
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