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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 13:55:20
Message-Id: 20160914145506.56154f14@red.yakaraplc.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups by James Le Cuirot
1 On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:53:18 +0100
2 James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200
5 > Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > > But seriously, once you've googled the repo, you might notice that
8 > > > it's hosted at github, and that you don't need to create your own
9 > > > snapshot tarballs any more. Want a snapshot from 20150423? Try,
10 > > >
11 > > > https://github.com/pathscale/libcxxrt/archive/665b0223ee27547175dc327a386fcd88243c7677.tar.gz
12 > > >
13 > > > Put COMMIT=665b0223ee27547175dc327a386fcd88243c7677 in the ebuild,
14 > > > stick that in $SRC_URI and $S, and then future snapshots will work
15 > > > without modification.
16 > >
17 > > that might be better, but how do you map date / $PV to commit ?
18 >
19 > You can't.
20
21 Sorry, let me correct that, you can't by date but you can by $PV if
22 they have created versioned git tags. Just swap the commit reference
23 for the tag name.
24
25 --
26 James Le Cuirot (chewi)
27 Gentoo Linux Developer

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>