On Monday 10 April 2006 08:09, Caleb Tennis wrote:
> I've been working on an ebuild that, ideally, would use the subversion
> eclass to checkout a snapshot of the ebuild (this is for local program).
> I plan to just put the repository version in the ebuild PV - ie:
> myprogram-224.ebuild.
doesnt this put unnecessary load on the project's servers ? a better idea
imho would be to tar up that snapshot and put it on the mirrors
> The problem is that portage always want to re-emerge this package during
> an update (presumably because it think that svn ebuilds are live ebuilds).
> I want to "trick" it into not doing this. I don't see anything obvious
> in the subversion eclass that would allow for this.
this sounds like a portage bug to me ...
-mike
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