On 03/11/2012 10:25 AM, Leho Kraav wrote: > On Monday, May 30, 2011 9:30:02 AM UTC+3, Michał Górny wrote: >> >> Right now, a quick 'grep -l github.*tarball' shows that there are about >> 147 ebuilds in portage using github snapshots. This evaluates to 83 >> different packages. >> >> The problem with github is that it suffixes the tarballs with >> a complete git commit id. This means that the `S' variable >> in the ebuild needs to refer to a long hash changing randomly. Right >> now, the problem is handled in a number of ways: >> >> 1) (from app-admin/rudy) >> 2) (app-emacs/calfw and suggested solution for Sunrise) >> 3) (app-misc/bgrep) >> 4) (app-misc/tmux-mem-cpu-load) >> >> What I'd like to do is creating a small github.eclass, encapsulating >> a common, nice way of handling the S issue. I guess the best solution >> would be to git with something like 2) above, with the eclass providing >> github_src_unpack() for EAPIs 2+. > > What is the current situation with this one? Every once in a while I run into > a github ebuild I need to create and I am not really sure what to do with it. > > Right now 2) seems like the safest approach. But did anything get into EAPI?
No, there's no EAPI extension for that yet, and no bug filed for it here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174380 -- Thanks, Zac
