-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone,
It might good to add support for a new RESTRICT=live value in ebuilds. By specifying this value, an ebuild would be able to indicate that it uses src_unpack() to download sources from some type of live repository such as cvs, darcs, git, mercurial, or svn. This new RESTRICT=live value would be useful in at least a couple of ways. One is that it could be used to implement a @live-rebuild package set that's based on RESTRICT instead of INHERITED [1]. It could also be used to implement a more accurate LIVEVCS.stable check in repoman, again based on RESTRICT instead of INHERITED [2]. We already have plans for more advanced live ebuild support, including live update detection, that will involve an EAPI bump [3]. However, the RESTRICT=live value is a simple enhancement that we can add now, without the need for an EAPI bump. Thoughts? Zac [1] http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/zmedico/2008/07/31/live_rebuild_package_set [2] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/portage?view=rev&rev=3457 [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182028 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiTwEYACgkQ/ejvha5XGaO1yACbBdLxCzvVxMdW/IjeodgbktNJ /GYAniFIweB8+Gj/7XSlT2pEFD6/Ric9 =a+ak -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
