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> Portage doesn't contain many cvs ebuilds. Writing one might not be |
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that much |
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> hassle, but why should I have to? We already have functional ebuilds to build |
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> that particular package, and I have some slightly newer source code (e.g. in |
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> my homedir) that I want it to build instead. |
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> If I did write a cvs ebuild, it would check out the sources *again* from CVS, |
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> into /usr/portage/distfiles (I guess...). This is redundant and will take |
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> quite a bit of time for larger packages. |
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After an initial checkout, it does cvs up's to keep it up to date, so it |
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would not be that much downloading. The source is kept in |
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/usr/portage/distfiles/cvs-src. Also, if you planned on using a setup |
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like this, there wouldn't really be a need to have the source in your |
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home directory as well. |
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While this not that much of a |
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> problem, one of my motives behind this is that I want to improve productivity. |
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> Writing an ebuild *again* which checks out the sources *again* doesn't really |
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> go in this direction. |
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Most cvs ebuilds I've seen are nearly identical to a non-cvs ebuild. The |
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only changes that should be required might be related to running autogen |
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before configure, besides that, the build process should not need to be |
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changed. |
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I think this is the 'scripts or tips' type thing that most people are |
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doing now. As for extending gentoo or portage to do it more seemlessly, |
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well, you'd need to get hacking on portage to do that. Combining the |
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power of a cvs ebuild with a regular one would probably not be all that |
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difficult. Having portage take your own tree from a particular user's |
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home directory on the other hand seems like a bit of a stretch, and no |
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necessarily all that useful. |
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Robert |
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