Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass

2013-02-22 Thread Kent Fredric
On 22 February 2013 20:43, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 22/02/2013 08:37, Kent Fredric wrote: I'd make sure to add some sort of easy support to switch to snapshotted tar.gz installs instead of live git checkouts, ie: GH_SNAPSHOT=deadbeef # use commit id 'deadbeef' by

Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass

2013-02-22 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/02/13 04:51 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: On 22 February 2013 20:43, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 22/02/2013 08:37, Kent Fredric wrote: I'd make sure to add some sort of easy support to switch to snapshotted tar.gz

Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass

2013-02-22 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:53:46 +0400 Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov m...@mva.name wrote: We have, for example, lua-socket-, that uses: GH_AUTHOR=diegonehab GH_PROJECT=lua-socket GH_BRANCH=unstable So, then I fork it and provide some features. And then I want to reemerge it from my fork, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass

2013-02-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: You can also use git-2 eclass-specific variables to switch the repo. The only difference is that you need to specify the full repo URI rather than just the author. The full repo URI is actually copy-pastable from github,

[gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
Hi there! Since we have tons of ebuild (including -) for software, that uses GitHub for sourcecode hosting — I've got an idea to write something like GitHub eclass, which will ease creating of such ebuilds (by providing sugar functions) and, (main goal for me) by adding possibility to switch

Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Kent Fredric
On 22 February 2013 19:53, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov m...@mva.name wrote: Hi there! Since we have tons of ebuild (including -) for software, that uses GitHub for sourcecode hosting — I've got an idea to write something like GitHub eclass, which will ease creating of such ebuilds (by

Re: [gentoo-dev] [discussion] GitHub eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 22/02/2013 08:37, Kent Fredric wrote: I'd make sure to add some sort of easy support to switch to snapshotted tar.gz installs instead of live git checkouts, ie: GH_SNAPSHOT=deadbeef # use commit id 'deadbeef' by fetching a tar.gz from github instead of a git clone This is not going to