On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 17:11 +0100, Alexander Mieland wrote:
> Okay, this I've understood.
> But what's with this "unpack" feature?
> 
> does the line
>   unpack ${DISTFILES}/bash-3.0.tar.bz2
> ... all of this job? I mean the downloading from the mirrors to 
> ${DISTFILES} and the unpacking?

Actually, I think unpack bash-3.0.tar.bz2 would be correct, as it
automatically searches ${DISTFILES} for the file.

> I'm asking because I can't find this feature on my system. Neither as 
> binary in the $PATH, nor as eclass-function.
> I only can find "unpack_pdv" and "unpack_makeself" as helper-functions.
> 
> As you can see in my attached ebuild, I've already the other parts 
> completed. I mean the configuring and compiling...
> I only need this last information how to download the src-tarball from 
> the gentoo-mirrors.
> 
> > > okay, this looks very good. Thanks for this.
> > > But would the other devs be satisfied with this?
> > > Or would the whole discussion continue then at the beginning again?
> >
> > I don't think anyone would have a problem with it.  It would make the
> > ebuild self-contained, and it would require no special permissions to
> > get its information.
> 
> Yeah, I hope so... ;)
> 
> > Of course, you don't have to use bash.  That was just a suggestion. 
> > You could use basc-benchmark.c or whatever else you wanted.
> 
> Yes sure, but bash is small and don't need much time to compile. And it's 
> a package everybody knows.
> btw. LFS uses bash to to calculate their SBU, so it can't be very 
> wrong. ;)
> 
> Btw. thanks for the help.

No problem.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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