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On Wednesday 14 April 2004 23:00, Elfyn McBratney wrote: |
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> OK, I have something.. the only problem I see is that the re2c.org people |
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> won't be doing releases. They'll be working from CVS only. Marcus Boerger |
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> asked this: |
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> ". . .It would also be nice if gentoo could go with RPMs we provide from |
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> CVS now (see README.in file)." |
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Heh - that Marcus from the php.net dev team? Figures ;-) |
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> I replied to Marcus saying that I'd ask (but that I was doubtful anout |
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> using RPM's :) |
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We can do that. Look at nxserver.eclass - that's one example that does this. |
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There are probably better ones in the Portage tree ;-) |
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> I'm working on a new ebuild that uses a cvs snapshot (to be downloaded from |
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> a distfiles mirror) that would seem the most logical way to go.. the only |
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> problem with that is that a dev will have to update the snap every couple |
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> of weeks/month. 8) |
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We can do that instead. I guess it comes down to how often they plan on |
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updating the RPMs - and whether there are any binary compatibility problems. |
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CVS snapshots might just be the way to go. |
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Is there anything we can do to help you right now? |
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Stu |
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