On 09/14/2016 06:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:45:58 -0400 > Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On 09/14/2016 01:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> >>> We had a review of such files before the git conversion: >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/550434 >>> >>> Especially, there's a list of "maintainer scripts" in comment #13. >>> At the time, we didn't do anything about them. There are very few of >>> such files (namely, 12 when that comment was written) so the space >>> taken by them is negligible. >>> >> >> I'll take the low hanging fruit: >> >> * dev-libs/collada-dom/files/take_snapshot.sh >> * sys-libs/libcxxrt/files/prepare_snapshot.sh >> >> Those two are completely trivial; clone a repo, rm -rf .git, tar it >> up. > > > Guess you never had to maintain packages whose releases are only > snapshots. They're trivial but it's a waste of time to re-assemble all > the bits every couple of months when you want to make a snapshot. > > Questions one needs to answer: > > - What SCM is used ? > - What is the URI ? > - How to fetch it ? > - What should be cleaned up after fetching ? > - What dirname to use so that it matches ebuilds' $S ? > - What compression to use so that it matches SRC_URI ? > > > > > Those scripts are made to automate this, and as you can see are closely > related to ebuilds, and thus fit perfectly next to them. > Why are those ebuilds not live? If upstream doesn't do real releases and can't even be bothered to tag the commit that marks a release, then why are you (or someone else) doing all this work? The snapshot scripts could be replaced by a live ebuild and upstream can handle bugs as they come since they can't be bothered to version their software.
Just my 2¢. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6
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