On Friday 05 September 2008, Mike Auty wrote:
> From what I understand of the idea, the eclass will just change the
> SRC_URI field from the first case (sf=tgz) to the second case (->).
> Eclasses have to be sourced before the SRC_URI is determined because
> they can already add (and presumably alter) elements of the SRC_URI
> variable.  So I'm not sure how this would directly affect mirroring
> or manifests any more than simply using the -> notation?  Could you
> explain what you mean when you say it won't allow for mirroring?

I was under the impression ferdy meant to use live checkouts instead of 
tarballs. I might have misunderstood that.


> Generating different tarballs is much more of an issue, and would
> impact on manifests too.  I guess it's a try-it-and-see situation...

I think it would be a better idea to check whether this feature actually 
works before implementing. I just don't know a gitweb site that tars up 
revisions / tags to test.


Robert

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