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COSMIC DE overlay for Gentoo
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As EGIT_COMMIT is set, the packages are not really "live" #10

Open filmor opened 2 weeks ago

filmor commented 2 weeks ago

It's currently not really possible to update Cosmic packages, as EGIT_COMMIT changes are not represented in the version. Live ebuilds (9999 version) are expected to not be tied to a particular commit. Since this is not the case, smart-live-rebuild will not detect changes. emerge @live-rebuild is blunt in that it just unconditionally recompiles everything.

I would suggest to either

fsvm88 commented 2 weeks ago

Hi, I was considering this myself lately, I agree.

Would the following changes make sense to you?

I would avoid adding date-based ebuilds, because I would need to regenerate the list of crates in each ebuild at a different date, and anyway COSMIC is not shipping in date-based increments.

filmor commented 2 weeks ago

That's all fine. The date-based approach was not meant to imply that there are date-based releases. It was just meant to provide an increasing version number such that newer versions can be installed sooner. This is the approach that the Fedora COPR uses (1.0.0-<date>git<commit-hash>).

The only problem with using the tags on the epoch repo is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of tagging activity right now. Looks more like they are running the alpha in a rolling release fashion.

fsvm88 commented 1 week ago

I've published 1.0.0_alpha1 ebuilds, and 9999 ebuilds now point to master branch.

I've tried to compile both sets and they seem to be working fine. Note that I haven't rechecked yet for possible packaging changes (installed files).

I'll leave this open for feedback, let me know if you have issues.