Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting on 2022-02-13

[William Hubbs]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 09:23:46AM +0500, Anna Vyalkova wrote:
> On 2022-02-09 04:15, Sam James wrote:
> > A compromise / workaround would be the Go maintainers working on
> > some tooling to make it easier to tar up the needed modules and
> > avoid huge SRC_URI.
>
> This. Sometimes EGO_SUM is so long it exceeds the maximum string length.
>
> *blames google for the whole go modules thing*

This isn't an issue specific to Go; Rust can have the same problem.

I'm speaking mostly for Go; I'm not sure how Rust handles this exactly.

If we could define an extra phase function that runs after
src_unpack, say call it src_fetch_extra, which has access to the
network, we could completely eliminate EGO_SUM and most of the go-module
eclass code around src_unpack.

At a very high level, if src_fetch_extra is not defined, nothing
happens. If it is defined, however, it would be called with "${S}" as
the starting directory.

Could this be added to eapi 9?

If I had something like this for Go ebuilds at least, all of the big
manifests would disappear.

Thanks,

William