pinkdiamond1 / gentoo-ego-vendor-update

Gentoo EGO_VENDOR updater

Helper script to update hashes inside an ebuild's EGO_VENDOR variable. It goes over the list of dependencies, fetches the latest HEAD's hash and outputs an up-to-date EGO_VENDOR.

Builds on Zac Medico's one-liners from https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615444

Usage

$ ./update_ego_vendor.sh /usr/portage/app-emulation/lxd/lxd-2.14-r1.ebuild

Limitations

• Assumes github. Either the dependency line is in the github.com/foo/bar <hash> form or in the some-name <hash> github.com/foo/bar one.
• Github limits access to its API to 60 requests per hour.

Generate EGO_VENDOR from source

Manually updating EGO_VENDOR, even with update_ego_vendor.sh was becoming tiresome when the package would add new dependencies with lots of sub-dependencies, so I created a whole new script with a new approach: extract_ego_vendor.sh.

To use this script, you must first create yourself an empty directory and set your GOPATH env variable to that path. Then, use go get or whatever else you need and ;et it fetch its dependencies. Then call extract_ego_vendor.sh with one argument: a path inside your GOROOT that has the github.com, gopkg.in and golang.org subdirectories.

You will then get a neat EGO_VENDOR output.

For now, this has only been tested with lxc/lxd.