On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 04:24:23PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello all, > > As I suggested earlier, I'm attaching an example implementation > of github-snapshot.eclass. > > All the eclass does is providing a default src_unpack() unpacking > the github snapshot into ${S}. Right now it simply does call default > src_unpack() and then does a fuzzy `mv' but that can change > in the future. > > The eclass doesn't modify S or SRC_URI itself. An ebuild using it > should look like the following:
A function to generate a github url for SRC_URI is likely warranted; should they ever grow mirrors/change their scheme, we can change it in one spot. Plus it makes it easier for ebuild devs to specify the url ;) ~brian
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