Currently, ebuilds or eclasses which inherit the subversion eclass cannot refine the location in which check-outs are stored locally. Yes, you can manipulate ESVN_STORE_DIR, but I am referring to refinements under that location. The variable ESVN_CO_DIR serves this purpose internally within the eclass, but overriding that variable in the client ebuild or eclass does not produce the expected result. Instead, subversion.eclass will always drop the files into ${ESVN_STORE_DIR}/${ESVN_PROJECT}. For example, the XFCE svn project consists of many modules. See: http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=documentation&lang=en We would like to be able to specify subversion eclass variables in order to check out a desired module, in the following manner: ESVN_PROJECT="xfce" ESVN_REPO_URI="http://svn.foo-projects.org/svn/${ESVN_PROJECT}/${ESVN_MODULE}/trunk" ESVN_CO_DIR="${ESVN_PROJECT}/${ESVN_MODULE}" where ESVN_CO_DIR is implicitly under the directory ESVN_STORE_DIR, as the eclass is currently designed. This would allow use to organize our local directories by project AND module, e.g. as follows: /usr/portage/distfiles/svn-src/xfce/gtk-xfce-engine-2/... /usr/portage/distfiles/svn-src/xfce/libxfce4mcs/... etc. The attached patch to subversion.eclass enables clients of the subversion.eclass to use ESVN_CO_DIR in the manner I described above: as a refining subdirectory under ESVN_STORE_DIR. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 70625 [details] subversion.eclass - original ebuild as reference for patch
Created attachment 70626 [details] subversion.eclass.diff - the patch itself
Created attachment 70641 [details, diff] subversion.eclass.diff - the patch itself
I'm am marking my bug as invalid for now as this patch is not general-purpose enough for general distribution and may break things.
Created attachment 70697 [details, diff] subversion.eclass.diff - the patch itself OK this one works the way I want it to. Bug re-opened. The key idea is the the svn co command now explicitly indicates the path for installation using ESVN_CO_DIR which defaults to ESVN_PROJECT if not indicated. Got rid of some of that dreadful bash substitution voodoo which is soooo difficult to debug by inspection.
re-opened.
Please use ESVN_PROJECT instead. From your example: ESVN_REPO_URI="http://svn.foo-projects.org/svn/${ESVN_PROJECT}/${ESVN_MODULE}/trunk" ESVN_PROJECT="xfce/${ESVN_MODULE}" or ESVN_PROJECT="xfce/${ESVN_MODULE}" ESVN_REPO_URI="http://svn.foo-projects.org/svn/${ESVN_PROJECT}/trunk" will work for you.
