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>>>>> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> I'm thinking of creating a new helper in Portage. The draft name is |
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> eslurp. It would be used like: |
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> eslurp [--dist|--binpkg] <file>... |
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+1 |
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The name will need some bikeshedding, though. :) |
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I suggest "edrop" or "einsert". |
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> i.e. it would have two modes: |
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> 1. --dist would place all listed files in DISTDIR (respecting any |
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> possible future DISTDIR split), |
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> 2. --binpkg would place all listed packages in PKGDIR (respecting |
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> subdirectories, updating index). |
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> If neither of the options were specified, it would guess the |
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> directory type by the filename suffix. |
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I wonder how that could possibly work. Distfiles have no specific |
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suffix, and binpkgs have a .tbz2 suffix which however can occur for |
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distfiles too. |
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Ulrich |
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