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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:43:28
Message-Id: 51272189.6020505@flameeyes.eu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass by Kent Fredric
1 On 22/02/2013 08:37, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > I'd make sure to add some sort of easy support to switch to
3 > snapshotted tar.gz installs instead of live git checkouts, ie:
4 >
5 > GH_SNAPSHOT=deadbeef # use commit id 'deadbeef' by fetching a tar.gz
6 > from github instead of a git clone
7
8 This is not going to fly because a live git checkout does not need
9 digests in the manifest, but a tar.gz snapshot does.
10
11 I'm not against having a common way to deal with github project as they
12 are common, but just having a wrapper for a few variables is not worth
13 it IMHO.
14
15 --
16 Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
17 flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>