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From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:53:35
Message-Id: 20160914145318.0431b10b@red.yakaraplc.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups by Alexis Ballier
1 On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200
2 Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > > But seriously, once you've googled the repo, you might notice that
5 > > it's hosted at github, and that you don't need to create your own
6 > > snapshot tarballs any more. Want a snapshot from 20150423? Try,
7 > >
8 > > https://github.com/pathscale/libcxxrt/archive/665b0223ee27547175dc327a386fcd88243c7677.tar.gz
9 > >
10 > > Put COMMIT=665b0223ee27547175dc327a386fcd88243c7677 in the ebuild,
11 > > stick that in $SRC_URI and $S, and then future snapshots will work
12 > > without modification.
13 >
14 > that might be better, but how do you map date / $PV to commit ?
15
16 You can't.
17
18 > remember, we want ebuilds that are as much as possible
19 > version-agnostic, otherwise it breaks simple copy of ebuilds to bump a
20 > version...
21
22 Ideally yes but this still beats manually preparing a tarball. I use
23 this approach a lot.
24
25 --
26 James Le Cuirot (chewi)
27 Gentoo Linux Developer

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