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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update svn ebuilds only when necessary
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:36:46
Message-Id: 200811031436.01869.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Update svn ebuilds only when necessary by Momesso Andrea
1 On Monday 03 November 2008 14:17:02 Momesso Andrea wrote:
2 > Is there a way to to update svn packages only when there are updates in
3 > the svn source?
4 >
5 > Actually I use a script to grep "9999" from eix -I output and put all
6 > those packages in a package set, then I have a cron job to rebuild this
7 > set weekly.
8 >
9 > What I'd like to do is to only fetch the svn sources, and rebuild the
10 > packages if sources have been updated since last build, saving lots of
11 > compilations.
12 >
13 > Does portage (or any other tool) provide a way to do it?
14
15 No, there is no such tool. Feel free to write one and share :-)
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18 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com