-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Zac Medico wrote: | Hi everyone, | | It might good to add support for a new RESTRICT=live value in | ebuilds. By specifying this value, an ebuild would be able to | indicate that it uses src_unpack() to download sources from some | type of live repository such as cvs, darcs, git, mercurial, or svn. | | This new RESTRICT=live value would be useful in at least a couple of | ways. One is that it could be used to implement a @live-rebuild | package set that's based on RESTRICT instead of INHERITED [1]. It | could also be used to implement a more accurate LIVEVCS.stable check | in repoman, again based on RESTRICT instead of INHERITED [2]. | | We already have plans for more advanced live ebuild support, | including live update detection, that will involve an EAPI bump [3]. | However, the RESTRICT=live value is a simple enhancement that we can | add now, without the need for an EAPI bump. Thoughts? | | Zac | | [1] | http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/zmedico/2008/07/31/live_rebuild_package_set | [2] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/portage?view=rev&rev=3457 | [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182028
+1 - -- Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org" Gentoo Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiT6XwACgkQNir3WYj9aLrhlwCfdmyhqPLSSSgH68UvE7KopAkD siYAnjEANXpkbuTA83yRIsIztp9kDVL7 =dJiJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
