[gentoo-dev] RFC : New ebuild function pkg_create for creating corespondent sorce tarball

[Alin Năstac]

I was asked to discuss here a portage enhancement proposed by me [1].

Basically I need a pkg_create() that will be executed only in the
context of the upcoming "ebuild ${PF}.ebuild create" command.

The package where I need it is app-mobilephone/bitpim. The upstream doesn't
offer a source tarball, so I need to construct it myself from their svn
repository. Up till recently, I used some hackery in pkg_setup() to
create it
(see the ebuild), but now "ebuild $PF.ebuild setup" verify the digest before
running pkg_setup().

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185567