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On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:37, Holly Bostick wrote: |
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> Daniel D Jones schreef: |
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> > I'm aware that Deer Park IS Firefox but my understanding was that Deer |
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> > Park was a nightly release build and not the official 1.5 release. I |
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> > thought it was the equivalent of grabbing the most recent source (at the |
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> > time the package was created) from CVS rather than getting the official |
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> > release source. Am I confused? |
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> Yes, you are. Have a look at the ebuild: |
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> # $Header: |
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> /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r11. |
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>ebuild,v 1.1 2006/02/01 22:13:20 anarchy Exp $ |
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... |
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> As you see, the source tarball is being downloaded from the releases |
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> folder of Mozilla.org's ftp, not any CVS or nightly build folder. |
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> Ebuilds from development trees such as CVS or "nightlies" are clearly so |
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> marked in their title, if they exist. |
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> For example, I use an ebuild for Krusader (provided by on the Homepage) |
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> which builds from the project's CVS tree, and it is rightfully called |
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> "krusader-cvs" rather than the normal "krusader" ebuild provided by |
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> Portage. |
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Thanks for the info and for clearing up my confusion. |
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> If an ebuild doesn't say it's compiling from CVS, it isn't. And of |
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> course, you can always just open it in a text editor and /look/... |
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I'm still learning how Portage works. I wasn't aware that ebuilds were that |
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straightforward. |
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