>>>>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Jauhien Piatlicki wrote: > I do not know whether this list is an appropriate place, so sorry if it > is not )
Hi, No problem with posting it to the gentoo-dev list. I'm answering in semi-private (Gentoo Emacs team in CC) because the topic is Emacs specific. > Recently I've wrote some little scripts that implement interface for > g-common type repositories of layman[1]. And I would ask those who is > interested to test them. > I've created two packages: g-common (interacts with layman) and g-elisp > (generates ebuilds). g-elisp is aimed to automatically create layman > overlays for repositories of elisp packages supported by package.el, so > those packages could be installed by portage. > To test it you can add an overlay described by this xml-file: > https://github.com/jauhien/jauhien-overlay/blob/master/jauhien-overlay.xml > and then `emerge g-elisp` > After emerging it you will be able to add two layman repositories of > type g-common: gnu-elpa and marmalade. It looks promising. I only wonder why you need to define your own fetch function instead of assigning SRC_URI? This will cause the ebuilds to be live ebuilds and there will be no possibility for the user to verify the integrity of the downloaded package. Or have I missed something? > g-common and g-elisp are still in the very beta, also I'm a very > beginner in python, so I will appreciate any feedback and criticism. I fear that I won't be able to help you with the Python. Cheers, Ulrich
