[PD] I created an ebuild for pd-0.40-p2

[carmen]

On Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 03:44:25AM +0200, federico wrote:
> I forgot: actually, in the pd-overlay repository, many ebuilds have
> version -9999 meaning that they are fetched from CVS (a trick to make
> they appear the latest version).

URL pls. i find a link to an XML file on sourceforge, that might have contained a link to the repo, but sourceforge is totally broken right now:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.0.3.sf-new/lib/viewvc.py", line 3660, in main
    request.run_viewvc()
  File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.0.3.sf-new/lib/viewvc.py", line 285, in run_viewvc
    % self.rootname, "404 Repository not found")


> there is a class that handles abstractions/externals fetching from cvs.
> 
> otherwise ebuilds can fetch tgz/zip/rar packages from some snapshot
> 
> On 4/16/07, federico <mescalinum at gmail.com> wrote:
> > just some notes:
> > I was thinking on how to manage releases, since many externals do not
> > have releases numbers.
> > also: in gentoo binary packages aren't much in use. gentoo *is* a
> > build farm: the user compiles the softwares that wants to installs,
> > choosing compile options via tag-like switches (USE flags). (you can
> > actually use it to build binary packages working out-of-the-box)
> > that information is handled in ebuilds, special shell scripts that
> > have the "version&dependency
> > check,fetch,unpack,compile,test,install,merge" recipe.
> >
> > so a gentoo repository it's just a collection of ebuilds, metadata and
> > changelogs, no bin packages.
> >
> > a note about the development: to commit ebuilds properly, automating
> > the check of some rules and the writing of changelog, there's a script
> > (sunrise-commit) wich relies on SVN (didn't look how can be adapted to
> > CVS), so it may be better work on pd-overlay project separately, and
> > sync to pd-cvs or wathever vc when doing point releases of pd/pd-ext
> > (also useful for tracking external's versions) (I can add you as
> > developer of pd-overlay, if you are intended to help testing, or
> > fixing ebuilds, or using it as a build platform.... just give me your
> > sf.net usernmae)
> >
> > about the gentoo version: latest is fine (should be 2006.1, or 2007.0)
> >
> > --
> > Federico
> 
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