cygport: user-supplied download action?

[Corinna Vinschen]

Hi Yaakov,


Some upstream packages are not available as tar archives, but can only
be fetched directly from their source code control repo.  How would you
fetch them via cygport?

I think it might be a nice addition to allow the maintainer to specify
how to download sources and create the src tar file from it.  For
instance:

  SRC_URI="function"

  src_download() {
    cvs -d $repo ex -r $version foo
    mv foo ${P}
    tar cJf ${P}.tar.xz ${P}
    rm -rf ${P}
  }

Does that make sense?  Or is that already possible and I just didn't
realize how to it?


Corinna

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