[Users] GetComponents: Purely local thorns

[Erik Schnetter]

On Jun 25, 2010, at 11:24 , Eric Seidel wrote:

> I tested the file:// handle with wget and curl yesterday, it works with curl but not wget. I'm not really sure why we would need to use wget or curl locally though, it seems that symlinks would suffice for local files, just like for git/hg/darcs.

We should make copies, not symlinks, so that people can make local modifications without influencing anything else, and so that they are independent of modifications applied elsewhere.

> Perhaps what we should do then is add a "!TYPE = ignore" as Frank suggested and then decide what would be the best method for handling local thorns which are not already in the source tree.

Yes, please!

-erik

> Eric
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> On Jun 25, 2010, at 7:00 AM, Erik Schnetter wrote:
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>> I'm not speaking of GetComponents copying anything -- I have a thorn that is already there, and GetComponents reports errors when I update since this thorn doesn't correspond to anything in the thorn list.
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>> Copying a thorn from a file:// url would also be nice, but isn't urgent.  Maybe wget would handle this already?
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>> -erik
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>> On Jun 24, 2010, at 18:48 , Eric Seidel wrote:
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>>> Are you talking about a thorn that is not even under local version control? In that case I don't think GetComponents would support it currently. We could introduce a new !TYPE called 'file' or 'local', which would direct GetComponents to copy the items to the specified location, or just create a symlink.
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>>> Eric
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>>> On Jun 24, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Erik Schnetter wrote:
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>>>> How do I specify in a GetComponent thorn list that a thorn is purely local and cannot be obtained from a repository?  I still want to include the thorn in the thorn list so that I can use this thorn list for building.
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>>>> -erik
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