Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:08:40
Message-Id: 1227881317.13985.615.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem by Michael Haubenwallner
1 On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 11:35 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 09:13 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
3 >
4 > > > Eventually, sys-devel/libperl should generally be package.masked for
5 > > > FreeMiNT (as 'irrelevant', lol), or at least install nothing.
6 > >
7 > > I did try that a while ago, but it threw up lots of horrible problems
8 > > with DEPEND/RDEPEND. So what's the correct way to package.masked this to
9 > > install nothing ??
10 >
11 > You could either package.provide it, or in the ebuild just 'return 0' in
12 > src_unpack(), src_compile() and src_install().
13
14 O.k. So maybe not so nice is that package.provide requires versions, so
15 I'd have to do....
16
17 sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r2
18
19 and keep updating that if a version bump happened, otherwise we'd end up
20 trying to emerge it and getting libperl.irrelevant again.
21
22 Alan.

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Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>