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On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:51:37 -0700 |
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Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 09/14/2016 06:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:45:58 -0400 |
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> > Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> On 09/14/2016 01:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>> |
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> >>> We had a review of such files before the git conversion: |
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> >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/550434 |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Especially, there's a list of "maintainer scripts" in comment #13. |
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> >>> At the time, we didn't do anything about them. There are very few |
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> >>> of such files (namely, 12 when that comment was written) so the |
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> >>> space taken by them is negligible. |
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> >>> |
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> >> |
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> >> I'll take the low hanging fruit: |
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> >> |
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> >> * dev-libs/collada-dom/files/take_snapshot.sh |
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> >> * sys-libs/libcxxrt/files/prepare_snapshot.sh |
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> >> |
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> >> Those two are completely trivial; clone a repo, rm -rf .git, tar it |
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> >> up. |
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> > Guess you never had to maintain packages whose releases are only |
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> > snapshots. They're trivial but it's a waste of time to re-assemble |
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> > all the bits every couple of months when you want to make a |
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> > snapshot. |
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> > |
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> > Questions one needs to answer: |
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> > |
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> > - What SCM is used ? |
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> > - What is the URI ? |
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> > - How to fetch it ? |
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> > - What should be cleaned up after fetching ? |
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> > - What dirname to use so that it matches ebuilds' $S ? |
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> > - What compression to use so that it matches SRC_URI ? |
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> > Those scripts are made to automate this, and as you can see are |
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> > closely related to ebuilds, and thus fit perfectly next to them. |
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> > |
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> Why are those ebuilds not live? |
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reproducible builds :) |
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