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

[Trey Boudreau]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 06:29:03PM +0000, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> 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.
> 
Hmmm.  I actually like the fact that it currently puts the svn-src in
/usr/portage/distfiles since all my Gentoo machines share it over NFS.
I'll have to poke around the ebuilds a bit.

Thanks for the heads-up,
-- Trey