On Saturday 16 February 2008 00:40:31 Doug Klima wrote: > > For quite a while the KDE herd has had a modified version of > > subversion.eclass in the kde overlay. During that time we have added the > > following features to the eclass which we would like to put back in > > gentoo-x86 soon. Since the changes are fairly extensive we decided to > > send it to this list for review first. > > > > 1) ESVN_REVISION (before this people had to use ESVN_OPTIONS for this > > purpose). > > ESVN_REPO_URI is a standard subversion URI and as such supports @HEAD, > @BASE, @COMMITTED, @PREV and @REV. So this is unnecessary.
The idea is that users can set ESVN_REVISION in the environment without having to modify the ebuilds. This isn't really possible with appending it to ESVN_REPO_URI. > > 2) ESVN_OFFLINE which disables svn up. > > Isn't this a bit of a hack? The point is for it to run svn up. Now I've > added support in a local refactor that I had started today that if the > working copy's revision matches the requested revision, that no svn up > is performed. Obviously the situation when you have a "live" SVN ebuild > would still result in an svn up, but then again "live" SVN ebuilds are > frowned upon and if the person is trying to emerge a "live" SVN ebuild I > would expect them to always get the latest version. Same as above. It's a convenience for users of live ebuilds which enables them to rebuild a package even when they don't have network without having to look up the revision of every packages that is currently available. > > 3) ESVN_UP_FREQ which uses GNU find to determine if the specified number > > of hours has passed and only do svn up if it has. This is currently used > > in the kde4svn-meta eclass for split kde ebuilds that use the same > > checkout of each module. > > This would be handled by the feature above. How? > > 4) ESCM_LOGDIR for logging which revisions packages get installed with. > > See [1]. Users need to explicitly enable this feature to use it. > > This seems like it belongs in a generic SCM framework/eclass that all > SCM eclasses can support. Not opposed to that. But what would that scm eclass do exactly? > [...] -- Bo Andresen Gentoo KDE dev
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