On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:57 AM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm finding in working on Go ebuilds, that we are propegating a
> src_unpack function that is very similar to the one in vcs-snapshot.
>
> This patch adds an EXTRACT_PATH variable to the vcs-snapshot eclass
> which, if set, puts the extracted archives in the specified directory under
> ${S}.
>
> If it is not set, nothing should happen.
>
> This could be used by other types of ebuilds later, but for now it would
> be used by Go ebuilds.
>
> Thoughts?
Can you provide an example of an ebuild in the tree for which this
would be useful?
I'm unclear as to why tarballs are being unpacked in sub-directories of ${S}.
