Re: [gentoo-devhelp] multiple GIT repositories - how?

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:16:55 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 03/04/2015 02:41:55 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:41:32 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'd like to write an ebuild  www-client/qupzilla-9999.
> > > For this I need to fetch from several repositories like
> > >
> > > EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla.git"
> > > EGIT_SECONDARY=("https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/Videoner.git"
> > >                 "https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/CopyTitle.git"
> > >                 "https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/MailHandle.git")
> > >
> > > How can this be achieved?
> >
> > Provide them as a list (or array) in EGIT_REPO_URI,
> > from git-r3.eclass manual page:
> >
> >        EGIT_REPO_URI (REQUIRED)
> >               URIs  to the repository, e.g. git://foo, https://foo. If
> > multiple URIs are provided, the eclass will consider them
> >               as fallback URIs to try if the first URI does not work.
> >
> >               It can be overriden via env using ${PN}_LIVE_REPO
> > variable.
> >
> >               Can be a whitespace-separated list or an array.
> >
> >               Example:
> >               EGIT_REPO_URI="git://a/b.git https://c/d.git"
> >
> >
>
> I don't understand this. I've tried to add
> qupzilla_LIVE_PRO=("https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/Videoner.git"
>                    "https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/CopyTitle.git"
>                    "https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/MailHandle.git")
> to /etc/portage/env/www-client/qupzilla
>
> In addition, I've tried
> EGIT_REPO_URI=("https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla.git"
>                "https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/Videoner.git"
>                "https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/CopyTitle.git"
>                "https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/tree/master/plugins/MailHandle.git")
>
> within the ebuild, but nothing helps.
> What am I missing?

Sorry, as Justin pointed in another mail, I misunderstood meaning
of additionals URIs: they are fallback links to the same
project.

Another idea: maybe you should separate plugins to their own
ebuilds? This will solve URI issue and will follow Gentoo
unbundling policy nicely.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko