On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:37, Holly Bostick wrote: > Daniel D Jones schreef: > > I'm aware that Deer Park IS Firefox but my understanding was that Deer > > Park was a nightly release build and not the official 1.5 release. I > > thought it was the equivalent of grabbing the most recent source (at the > > time the package was created) from CVS rather than getting the official > > release source. Am I confused? > > Yes, you are. Have a look at the ebuild: > # $Header: > /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r11. >ebuild,v 1.1 2006/02/01 22:13:20 anarchy Exp $ ... > As you see, the source tarball is being downloaded from the releases > folder of Mozilla.org's ftp, not any CVS or nightly build folder. > > Ebuilds from development trees such as CVS or "nightlies" are clearly so > marked in their title, if they exist. > > For example, I use an ebuild for Krusader (provided by on the Homepage) > which builds from the project's CVS tree, and it is rightfully called > "krusader-cvs" rather than the normal "krusader" ebuild provided by > Portage.
Thanks for the info and for clearing up my confusion. > If an ebuild doesn't say it's compiling from CVS, it isn't. And of > course, you can always just open it in a text editor and /look/... I'm still learning how Portage works. I wasn't aware that ebuilds were that straightforward. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
