On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:53:18 +0100
James Le Cuirot <ch...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> 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.

Sorry, let me correct that, you can't by date but you can by $PV if
they have created versioned git tags. Just swap the commit reference
for the tag name.

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James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer

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