Re: [gentoo-dev] Request for Help

[Michiel de Bruijne]

Forgot one thing:
- add inherit Gnome eclass in the Gnome ebuilds

TuxFriend

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On Sunday 22 September 2002 09:59, TuxFriend wrote:
> Hi Spider,
>
> Maybe I'm overlooking something but how about:
> - set a $MAJOR_VERSION in a Gnome eclass (e.g. 2.4)
> - set a $SRC_PATH in a Gnome eclass (e.g
> ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources)
> - set in Gnome eclass something like SRC_URI =
> ${SRC_PATH}/${PN}/${MAJOR_VERSION}/${P}.tar.bz2
> - remove all SRC_URI entries from gnome ebuilds
>
> If in the future for example the major version change to 2.6 you only have
> to change the eclass.
> The removal of all the SRC_URI entries from Gnome ebuilds is something that
> can be done by a script.
>
> TuxFriend
>
> --------------------
>
> On Sunday 22 September 2002 04:41, Spider wrote:
> > hello folks.....
> >
> > I'm a tad of a bit irritated right now. the Gnome team has changed the
> > ftp layout completely, and Now every download for a gnome package will
> > fail from gnome or their updated mirrors.
> >
> > the update work is harsh since the system is harder to script than
> > before.
> >
> > in this example I'll use "gdm" which is currently at  version
> > 2.4.0.11
> >
> > for example, we now have to link:
> > ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/2.0.x/sources/gdm/gdm-2.4.0.11.tar.bz2
> > ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/2.0.x/sources/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2
> >
> > Where we now will have to refer to :
> > ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gdm/2.4/gdm-2.4.0.11.tar.bz2
> >
> > to make this simple across updates is impossible due to the "2.4" which
> > will have to either add extra logic to the ebuild, or be manually set
> > between major versions.
> >
> > well, this will be "simple" .. its only the question of a couple of
> > man-hours to manually go through all our gnome packages and changing
> > SRC_URI ...   happy happy fscking JOY!
> >
> > Example:
> > gdm-2.4.0.11 :
> > mirror://gnome/sources/${PN}/2.4/${P}.tar.bz2
> >
> > Now.. .for my main source of irritation and something I'd require help
> > with. in this update, they also saw fit to remove the /latest directory,
> > which previously had a nice "sort by date" in the http interface, and
> > thus was really simple to keep abreast with added and changed packages
> > between our tree and theirs..  Now this is the question of listing all
> > packages one by one for each "major" version and checking against our
> > supported versions.  as you can imagine this is nothing I look forward
> > to doing.
> >
> > So, I request the help of the creative scripters in the -dev list to
> > come up with a way to track changes in a ftp tree between two days, and
> > listing the new packages between dates.
> >
> > ls */*/*.tar* >$DATE ; diff $DATE(TODAY) $DATE(TODAY-1) :
> > or something ;)
> >
> >
> > regards,
> >   Spider
> >       irate developer
>
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