Re: [gentoo-dev] Useful bash script to create Gentoo binary packages after emerge is over

[Geert Bevin]

Great ! I've been waiting for this for a while. Would be good if this or
something similar is integrated by default in portage.

On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 00:48, Terry Chan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hopefully other Gentoo users will find this bash script useful.  It creates
> Gentoo binary packages AFTER the package has already been emerge'd.
>
> This is useful if you don't always want to emerge with --buildpkg, but you
> do want to create the Gentoo package (tbz2) at a later date.  This also
> gives the sys-admin a chance to modify the config files that are a part
> of any given package and then those config file changes will be bundled
> up into the resulting binary package.
>
> Script must be run as ROOT.  Invocation is fairly simple. Using prozilla as
> an example:
>
>    quickpkg /var/db/pkg/net-www/prozilla-1.3.6/
>
> Will create /usr/portage/packages/All/prozilla-1.3.6.tbz2
>
> This binary Gentoo package can then be installed on another Gentoo system
> by simplying copy the tbz2 package to the new gentoo box and then using
> this command:
>
>    emerge --usepkg /usr/portage/packages/All/prozilla-1.3.6.tbz2
>
> Terry Chan
> ----------
> ----
>

> #!/bin/bash
> # This script tries to quickly create a gentoo binary package using the
> #   /var/db/pkg/class-app/app/* files
> #
> # Example invocation should be something similar to:
> #   quickpkg /var/db/pkg/net-www/prozilla-1.3.6/
> #
> # Resulting tbz2 file will be created in /usr/portage/packages/ALL/
> #
> # Run this script as ROOT
> #
> # Comments or questions to tchan@××××××××.com
> # Terry Chan, 2001, GPL
> #
> PF=`cat $1/PF`
> MYDIR="/tmp/portage/${PF}"
> rm -r ${MYDIR}/temp
> mkdir -p ${MYDIR}/temp
> cp $1/* ${MYDIR}/temp
> cut -f 2 -d " " $1/CONTENTS >${MYDIR}/filelist
> tar cjvf ${MYDIR}/bin.tar.bz2 --files-from=${MYDIR}/filelist --no-recursion
> rm ${MYDIR}/temp/CONTENTS
> xpak ${MYDIR}/temp ${MYDIR}/inf.xpak
> tbz2tool join ${MYDIR}/bin.tar.bz2 ${MYDIR}/inf.xpak ${MYDIR}/${PF}.tbz2
> [ -d /usr/portage/packages/All ] ||  mkdir -p /usr/portage/packages/All
> mv ${MYDIR}/${PF}.tbz2 /usr/portage/packages/All
> rm ${MYDIR}/temp/*
> rm ${MYDIR}/bin.tar.bz2 ${MYDIR}/inf.xpak ${MYDIR}/filelist
>
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