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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending -scm with upstream revision awareness
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:31:28
Message-Id: 4853F243.6090207@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Extending -scm with upstream revision awareness by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > * add src_fetch_extra or whatever to avoid doing the fetches in
3 > src_unpack.
4
5 good idea.
6
7 > * add pkg_scm_info. It outputs a string containing no spaces.
8
9 .live would need something a bit different.
10
11 > * When installing an scm package with suitable EAPI to VDB / exndbam,
12 > rewrite the scm version to -scm@THE_INFO_OUTPUT.
13
14 so -scm will have a @ metachar to point that what's following is the
15 hash/revision/reference to avoid clashes.
16 The info output would consider branches and tags as well?
17
18 > * When updating an scm package, do src_fetch_extra then pkg_scm_info.
19 > At user option, if the pkg_scm_info value hasn't changed and it's a
20 > reinstall, skip reinstalling.
21
22 > * At user option, and not by default, do the fetch / info stage
23 > *before* showing the "this is what we'll install" list.
24
25 Sounds quite interesting.
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29 Luca Barbato
30 Gentoo Council Member
31 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
32 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending -scm with upstream revision awareness Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>