cygport: user-supplied download action?

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2012-05-07 03:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Consider I would like to convert the cygwin package to cygport packed.
> So I create a tag and then...
>
>    CVS_URI=":pserver:anoncvs@cygwin.com:/cvs/src"
>    CVS_MODULE="winsup"
>    CVS_BRANCH="cygwin-${PV//\./_}-release"
>    inherit cvs
>
> `cygport fetch' fails, because it expects that the unpacked directory
> is called ${CVS_MODULE}.  But in fact, the source code dir fetched
> from sourceware is called "src".  "winsup" is just a subdirectory.
> So the call
>
>    tar cf [...] ${CVS_MODULE}
>
> doesn't work.

Right; sourceware.org:/cvs/src is funny that way.  AFAIK it is the only 
time I have seen that with CVS, but do other exceptions exist?

> Using the `cvs checkout -d' option doesn't work either here.  It's not
> working as one expects it, and the additional -N option makes it only
> marginally better.

So I noticed. :-(  Is that a bug or am I misreading the manual?

> Here's a suggestion for a patch which allows to do exactly that.  Before
> calling "inherit cvs", just set a variable $CVS_TOPLEVEL to the name of
> the toplevel directory of the repository you're trying to fetch from:
>
>    CVS_URI=":pserver:anoncvs-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org:/cvs/src"
>    CVS_MODULE="winsup"
>    CVS_BRANCH="cygwin-${PV//\./_}-release"
>    CVS_TOPLEVEL="src"
>    inherit cvs

Did I mention that if we wouldn't have this problem if we used git? :-)

GTG now but this is in my queue.


Yaakov