On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:31:44AM +0100, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > Le mardi 02 décembre 2008 à 16:50 -0800, Robin H. Johnson a écrit : > > As another major pain, for ebuilds where the homepage changes every > > version in > > some predictable pattern, you have now increased the maintenance > > burden. Before > > we could just copy the ebuild if we had a suitable variable expression > > in the > > HOMEPAGE variable, but now we'd have to edit it into metadata.xml as > > well. > actually I thought it was strictly forbidden to put any kind of variable > in the HOMEPAGE value. Did I miss something, is it an old restriction > that doesn't matter anymore ? It exists as a warning in some places still I think.
perl-module.eclass has this:
[ -z "${HOMEPAGE}" ] && \
HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/search?query=${MY_PN:-${PN}}&mode=dist";
There was something else that used the form of:
MY_PV=$(something-from-versionator ...)
MY_PN=...
HOMEPAGE="http://foobar/${MY_PN}/${MY_PV}";
I'm pretty sure I saw something about one of the EAPIs supporting
USE-dependency stuff in HOMEPAGE as well.
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