On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:22:16 +0100 > Tomáš Chvátal <scarab...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> But in comment 4 user ask about updates itself. If we have live >> package and revision does not change it is pointless waste of >> resources to recompile it usualy.
> * Allowing installed SCM ebuilds to identify the revision with which > they were built. This isn't overly difficult, once you get around > things like CVS not really having a revision. By the way, update-live-ebuilds[1] gets around this by doing sha1sum on certain parts of the CVS directory. CVS and TLA are the only eclasses which this should be necessary. This, obviously, means a update is done first and the hash is figured out afterwards, making it rather limiting. 1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-725867-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-ule.html -- avuton -- | (\_/) This is Bunny. Copy and paste Bunny | (='.'=) into your signature to help him gain | (")_(") world domination.
