On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 21:30:06 -0700 Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Yeah, but it's not going to happen without an EAPI/PMS extension. > There needs to be a standard way for the package manager to check if > there has been an upstream change for a given package since the last > time it was rebuilt.
Something to add to the next version possibly. > > Could have cron run that, and then an interval in portage is not > > necessary. > > Doing updates via cron is inappropriate for most scenarios. I was > thinking that we'd have an option to rebuild if an interval has > expired *and* there has been an upstream change. That way, you can > limit the rate of rebuilds if upstream is changing very frequently. I was thinking of cron like regular system updates. May want to rebuild it nightly, etc. Interval can be done in a variety of ways. The main issue is detecting if upstream has changed or not. > > I was more thinking some sort of hook to upstream to see if > > there have been any commits or changes. No reason to rebuild a live > > package if nothing changed :) > > Yeah, that's what I was thinking all along. That's why we need an > EAPI/PMS extension, in order to implement behavior like > smart-live-rebuild. Hopefully that will be in a future version so such can be added. Up to PMS authors. -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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