On Tue, 31 May 2011 14:28:00 -0500
William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 04:24:23PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > EAPI=4
> > 
> > inherit github-snapshot
> > 
> > DESCRIPTION="Random github package"
> > HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/foo/bar";
> 
> bar is actually ${PN}.

AFAIK it is a bad practice to use any variables in HOMEPAGE. Reason
unknown, vim highlights this in red.

> > SRC_URI="http://github.com/foo/${PN}/tarball/${P} -> ${P}.tar.gz"
> 
> The first ${P} above isn't right, because that is where the tag of the
> snapshot goes.

This is a slightly modified copy-paste from an ebuild. In this
particular example, the tag was same as ${P}.

It is just an example. It's supposed to shortly show what needs to be
changed and what needs not. My main intent is not to suggest creating
additional variables like GITHUB_TAG and so on.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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