On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200 Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > But seriously, once you've googled the repo, you might notice that > > it's hosted at github, and that you don't need to create your own > > snapshot tarballs any more. Want a snapshot from 20150423? Try, > > > > https://github.com/pathscale/libcxxrt/archive/665b0223ee27547175dc327a386fcd88243c7677.tar.gz > > > > Put COMMIT=665b0223ee27547175dc327a386fcd88243c7677 in the ebuild, > > stick that in $SRC_URI and $S, and then future snapshots will work > > without modification. > > that might be better, but how do you map date / $PV to commit ? You can't. > remember, we want ebuilds that are as much as possible > version-agnostic, otherwise it breaks simple copy of ebuilds to bump a > version... Ideally yes but this still beats manually preparing a tarball. I use this approach a lot. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
