On 06/03/11 16:09, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Michał Górny schrieb: >> You could have a 'versioned' ebuild linked to the actual SRC_URI, >> and bump it whenever you notice the upstream tarball changes. This >> would allow users to have the package upgraded automatically. >> > > I don't think this will help users much. It will just make the package > uninstallable between the time the upstream tarball changes and the > package is bumped. > A live ebuild is at least honestly telling users what to expect.
Just mirror the darn tarball in a stable location. I've done that for silly and weird upstreams ... > >> I think it would be similar to the situation we had with adobe-flash >> packages. >> > > It reminds me more of the (now defunct) live ebuild of chromium-bin > > > Best regards, > Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn > > -- Patrick Lauer http://service.gentooexperimental.org Gentoo Council Member and Evangelist Part of Gentoo Benchmarks, Forensics, PostgreSQL, KDE herds
