Maybe I'm missing something here but what does this do that the current ebuilds that access CVS don't do? The current ebuilds - using the CVS eclass fetch the most current CVS version, then you do whatever you need to do just like a regular ebuild. If you need the updated CVS you just emerge again.
> > From: Timo Horstschäfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/06/01 Wed PM 03:13:44 EDT > To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-dev] cvs-ebuilds > > A few day ago i thought about ebuilds without a version number. > The thing is to fetch all files via cvs and then do the things you do > with a normal ebuild. > > After fetching the files all the content will be packed into a bz2 > archive and saved in /usr/portage/distfiles/ > i.e. if i emerge again the stored bz2archive will be extracted and > synced with cvs again. > So i can always can get the newest version without waiting for an ebuild. > > Of course those packages are marked ~* anytime and nobody can promise, > the compiling won't fail. > > Another feature could be to save the bz2 archive with the date of > fetching in its name. > Then i could use an old archive if there is i great bug in the newest files. > > I want to read some opinions about this, it's just an idea. > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
