On Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 03:44:25AM +0200, federico wrote: > I forgot: actually, in the pd-overlay repository, many ebuilds have > version -9999 meaning that they are fetched from CVS (a trick to make > they appear the latest version).
URL pls. i find a link to an XML file on sourceforge, that might have contained a link to the repo, but sourceforge is totally broken right now: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.0.3.sf-new/lib/viewvc.py", line 3660, in main request.run_viewvc() File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.0.3.sf-new/lib/viewvc.py", line 285, in run_viewvc % self.rootname, "404 Repository not found") > there is a class that handles abstractions/externals fetching from cvs. > > otherwise ebuilds can fetch tgz/zip/rar packages from some snapshot > > On 4/16/07, federico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > just some notes: > > I was thinking on how to manage releases, since many externals do not > > have releases numbers. > > also: in gentoo binary packages aren't much in use. gentoo *is* a > > build farm: the user compiles the softwares that wants to installs, > > choosing compile options via tag-like switches (USE flags). (you can > > actually use it to build binary packages working out-of-the-box) > > that information is handled in ebuilds, special shell scripts that > > have the "version&dependency > > check,fetch,unpack,compile,test,install,merge" recipe. > > > > so a gentoo repository it's just a collection of ebuilds, metadata and > > changelogs, no bin packages. > > > > a note about the development: to commit ebuilds properly, automating > > the check of some rules and the writing of changelog, there's a script > > (sunrise-commit) wich relies on SVN (didn't look how can be adapted to > > CVS), so it may be better work on pd-overlay project separately, and > > sync to pd-cvs or wathever vc when doing point releases of pd/pd-ext > > (also useful for tracking external's versions) (I can add you as > > developer of pd-overlay, if you are intended to help testing, or > > fixing ebuilds, or using it as a build platform.... just give me your > > sf.net usernmae) > > > > about the gentoo version: latest is fine (should be 2006.1, or 2007.0) > > > > -- > > Federico > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list