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On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:48:22 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> None of the madwifi-ng ebuilds in my portage tree have an svn source. |
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> I'd be surprised if they did because the Gentoo devs generally |
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> discourage subversion/cvs/etc. ebuilds. |
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It's in an overlay, the portage ebuilds don't support my card. although |
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there are ebuilds in portage that use svn/cvs, like MythTV. |
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> Also lots of times a SRC_URI server is down or a mirror is out of sync |
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> and we don't call them bugs; we call them crappy servers. |
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Well, that is the root cause of the problem, or they didn't pay their |
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hosting bill! But it is better to work around such situations than blame |
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others. |
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The point is that I already have the sources in $DISTDIR, but portage |
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won't use them until it can verify that they are up to date. Since they |
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work and the server doesn't, I'd say that was a reasonable assumption. |
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> Now I'm not a Gentoo dev (anymore) but I wouldn't be surprised that if |
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> you submitted a bug you'd get a WONTFIX or a "patches welcomed" |
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> response. |
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I was hoping someone already knew a workaround, otherwise it makes it |
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impossible to build from source you have already downloaded and verified, |
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which sounds like a bug to me! |
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Neil Bothwick |
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