Re: [gentoo-catalyst] GRP SUN-JRE Package

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 15:40 +0100, Heiko Kopp wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> Am 07.12.2005 13:49 Uhr schrieb "Chris Gianelloni" unter
> <wolf31o2@g.o>:
>
> > On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 13:04 +0100, Heiko Kopp wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> im currently trying to build a GRP SUN-JRE Package (in detail by the use of
> >> GNAT). The problem is, that catalyst seems to have problems with ebuilds
> >> creating files during the src_unpack() phase as the package
> >
> > Here is the problem.
> >
> > src_* is *not* processed by portage during package installation.  This
> > is a portage feature, and will probably never be changed.
>
> actually this confuses me a bit, cause how would the package installation
> process know about a file install.sfx when it does not process this
> function? When normally installing the sun-jre or the sun-jdk with a present
> file in /usr/portage/distfiles everything works as expected.

This has nothing to do with catalyst.  This is how portage works.

Portage, when building a package, processes all functions.  When
installing a pre-built package, it only processes the pkg_* functions.
If you have a file that is not installed during the src_install
function, it will not be present in the binary package.  Only files that
are installed into ${D} during src_install will ever show up in a binary
package.  Without investigating this particular package itself, I can't
tell you exactly what is going on here, but it sounds to me like the
package is not binpkg-friendly.  There are actually lots of packages
where this is the case in the tree, since most people don't use binary
packages with Gentoo.

> Sorry for asking again, but Catalyst is way above my understanding currently
> :-)

No problem, but none of this has anything to do with catalyst, really.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
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Gentoo Linux