Alin Năstac wrote: > Luca Barbato wrote: >> My idea is to have your overlay with live ebuilds and a tool to make a >> release out of it. >> >> All the messy stuff remains in pkg_setup/src_unpack all you need to do >> then is to iterate the workdir and make tarballs of what you find there. >> >> Sounds good enough? >> > Basically you propose to have a src_whatever function that will work as > a substitute for src_unpack() in case you don't find the tarball on > mirrors, isn't it?
More or less a tool that runs the steps till src_unpack included and then repacks what it finds in workdir. > That could work too, but what if, depending on some useflag, I need to > patch the source tree? Because the new function must be capable to > replace src_unpack, you will have to add a command like "use foo && > epatch ..." at the end of the new function. If foo useflag is enabled on > your system, the external tool that build the tarball will create it > based on a wrongly patched source tree. Well much depends on what is the seed ebuild. I make the assumption we have 2 kind of ebuilds live ebuilds that we use to produce tarballs and normal ebuilds that use those tarballs. it is a little more complex than your propose but keeps things separated. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
