Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Since some people have been asking about this... Here's how I'd see > upstream revision awareness being added to the -scm proposal. > > * add src_fetch_extra or whatever to avoid doing the fetches in > src_unpack. > > * add pkg_scm_info. It outputs a string containing no spaces. > > * When installing an scm package with suitable EAPI to VDB / exndbam, > rewrite the scm version to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * When doing a pretend install, consider reinstalling any scm package > that was installed more than $user_option ago, and mark it as "might > reinstall". > > * When updating an scm package, do src_fetch_extra then pkg_scm_info. > At user option, if the pkg_scm_info value hasn't changed and it's a > reinstall, skip reinstalling. ... and reset the reference date "$user_option ago" is compared to to have it reconsidered in "$user_option ago" again. (or reset the date when this package got installed to the current date)
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