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On 06/07/2012 11:49 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As it was pointed out, vcs-snapshot is unable to handle multiple
> tarballs nicely. As fixing this would involve changing eclass API
> (and they are packages which are known to break thanks to it), I'm
> posting a new eclass for review. Of course, if the community
> insists, I could just update the old eclass and fix the ebuilds
> broken that way.
>
> The idea with the new eclass is to extract all supported archives
> (which means .tar* at the point) into ${WORKDIR} subdirectories
> matching their names. In other words, if you've got:
>
> SRC_URI="http://foo/getbar -> ${P}.tar.bz2 http://foo/getbaz ->
> ${P}-data.tar.bz2"
>
> You'd get the contents in ${WORKDIR}/${P} and ${WORKDIR}/${P}-data
> respectively.
>
> A few things to note:
>
> 1) the implemention just dumbly uses 'tar --strip-components'. If
> it hits a tarball without a single top-level directory, scary
> things will happen;
>
> 2) only tarballs are handled, other archives are just passed
> through to unpack;
>
> 3) at some point the eclass could be extended to handle more
> formats. So if you've got other archives in your SRC_URI, please
> make sure they are named consistently with the parent dir, so that
> they would not relocate when support for that particular format is
> added.
>
> By the way, the credit for the overall idea goes to hasufell.
>
What is with zipballs from github for example? They are not supported
by this method afais.
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