Luca Barbato wrote: > My idea is to have your overlay with live ebuilds and a tool to make a > release out of it. > > All the messy stuff remains in pkg_setup/src_unpack all you need to do > then is to iterate the workdir and make tarballs of what you find there. > > Sounds good enough? > Basically you propose to have a src_whatever function that will work as a substitute for src_unpack() in case you don't find the tarball on mirrors, isn't it? That could work too, but what if, depending on some useflag, I need to patch the source tree? Because the new function must be capable to replace src_unpack, you will have to add a command like "use foo && epatch ..." at the end of the new function. If foo useflag is enabled on your system, the external tool that build the tarball will create it based on a wrongly patched source tree.
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