Bug 29796

Summary:	CVS eclass downloads at compile rather than fetch
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thomas L. Bevan <tbevan>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Tal Peer (RETIRED) <coredumb>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Thomas L. Bevan 2003-09-28 05:33:33 UTC

emerge -f kde-cvs (for instance)
does not use CVS to download the sources.
Downloading occurs at the 'compile' stage.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.

Comment 1 Shane Simmons 2003-09-28 10:38:54 UTC

This is a fix I'd like to see as well.  I live in a fairly rural area, and
my only options are dialup, satelite, and nothing at all.  Prefetching source
is the only way I can maintain my sanity and still use Gentoo (it's helpful
to start up a 'emerge -f whatever' session at night.)

If you're working with the KDE cvs builds, you could always give cvsup a
go, follow the official KDE instructions on grabbing the source by cvs, put
the source in the proper place, and when you go to emerge the builds, set
ECVS_SERVER to 'offline', which should disable fetching.  Note that I've
not tried this yet, so YMMV.

Comment 2 Tal Peer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-14 10:37:36 UTC

This isn't currently fixable due to a portage limitation which prevents overloading of the _fetch functions.