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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild: How to deal with external repositories properly (best practise)?
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:03:56
Message-Id: CAGfcS_=a5cU0X8HpgR6m9vD2Bj0Vg76DY_J1+aNquX8CaOkfnw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild: How to deal with external repositories properly (best practise)? by tastytea
1 On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 7:51 PM tastytea <tastytea+gentoo@××××××××.de> wrote:
2 >
3 > This seems to affect only api.github.com, packages in ::guru use
4 > https://github.com/<REPO>/archive/<COMMIT>.tar.gz instead, which is not
5 > affected (just checked with net-wireless/rtl8192eu-0_pre20200123).
6
7 Ah, didn't notice that. This is the more common approach for Gentoo
8 packages, if they use hashes at all. Usually tags are preferred.
9
10 And if upstream actually has an official source tarball that is what
11 gets used. The only reason anybody in Gentoo uses github links at all
12 is either because upstream uses it officially, or upstream doesn't
13 even bother to release source tarballs.
14
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16 Rich