[mythtv] FIX: building svn version of myth on gentoo and using latest version of emerge

[Simon Kenyon]

On Friday 03 February 2006 18:16, Trey Boudreau wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:53:59PM +0000, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> > On Friday 03 February 2006 17:49, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> > > you might have noticed that it checks out the entire source each time
> > > it is built! this will increase the load on cvs.mythtv.org and is
> > > completely unnecessary.
> > >
> > > my solution is to change myth-svn.eclass to set the value below:
> > >
> > > ESVN_STORE_DIR="${BUILD_PREFIX}/svn-src"
> > >
> > > this puts the svn source in /var/tmp/portage/svn-src instead of in the
> > > build tree (which gets deleted after the build)
> > >
> > > hope this helps
> > >
> > > regards
> >
> > just realised
> > you need to change the ENTRIES  variable as well a few lines further down
> > (to reduce the load even further)
>
> eh?  I don't have this problem with the version of the svn ebuilds I
> use.  It does to an update each time, though, to grab the most current
> sources.

the new version of portage (which you need to unmask for the modularized X 
ebuilds) has this nice new "feature". see bug 117440 on bugs.gentoo.org for 
details.

regards
--
simon