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Hi Daniel, |
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Wow, a programmer that actually replies to his email? That's cool. I wish |
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our developers at work dd that =) |
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Now, you make reference to 1.0_rc4_pre3 , but the website says the next |
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release is 1.0_rc4. Did I miss a release? |
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But, anyway, that's good that it's being worked on. Other than that, I |
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really like the distribution. Especially ReiserFS. It seems much faster than |
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ext2. |
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Regarding the recursive package merge, couldn't one just modify the ebuild |
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script mentioned in your bash tutorial on IBM Developerworks and add some |
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lines in to check the dependencies, then if it needs, say, Gnomelibs-1.0.4 |
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(or whatever the current version is), it searches the "All" directory for |
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the appropriate package and installs it before returning to the original |
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package you wanted to install. I guess this is how the FreeBSD ports system |
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works. Or would something like that need to be written in something other |
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than a scripting language? |
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If I'm totally wrong on this, sorry... I'm still learning =) |
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Cheers, |
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Sean |
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>From: <drobbins@g.o> |
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>Reply-To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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>To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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>Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple dependencies with installing packages |
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>from the CD |
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>Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:27:59 -0700 |
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> |
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>On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 06:17:36PM -0000, Sean Cull wrote: |
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> > Is there a program/utility to install packages from the CD that require |
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> > multiple dependencies? Like installing Xchat requires GTK, requires |
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> > Gnome-libs, etc... At times, it makes installing packages rather |
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>difficult. |
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> > Hopefully I'm not the only one that has come across this. |
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> > Any help would be greatly appreciated! =) |
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>Recursive pkgmerge will work in 1.0_rc4_pre3. We have a mostly-working |
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>recursive pkgmerge on the latest CVS version of Portage, but it requires |
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>packages to be organized in category sub-directories (right now, they're in |
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>a |
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>single "all" directory). We will also very likely have a slight |
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>backwards-compatible change to the package format in 1.0_rc4_pre3 to make |
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>recursive pkgmerge workable. |
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>So, we're working on it; please stay tuned :) |
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>Best Regards, |
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>-- |
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>Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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>President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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>Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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