Hi,

On 23-05-2008 13:44:34 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote:
> I've submit a patch to bugzilla to ecopy to download all AUX files
> mentioned in Manifest file.  I'd like to hear some feedback either in
> bugzilla or this mailing list :)
> 
> the bug report is at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223295

Thanks for the patch.  However, fetching all AUX files IMHO is a bit too
much.  This is exactly the reason why eupdate does some extensive magic
to detect needed files from $FILESDIR.  I'm not sure how others feel
about potentially having more files in $FILESDIR than the latest ebuild
requires, but I know that for the tree this is not desirable.

That said, my opinion on the matter is that it is a known limitation of
ecopy, that I won't fix.  It probably is possible to "port" the
fetch_files function from eupdate to ecopy, but someone else should do
it then (and maintain it).


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