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On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 08:06:45PM -0000, Sean Cull wrote: |
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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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We can't just use the "All" directory because we have some packages with |
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identical names, but in different categories. For example, there's |
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sys-build/gcc and sys-devel/gcc. The only way to deal with this is to actually |
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look inside the package at the packaging information, and this is a very slow |
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process with our current package format. Once we add an (mostly |
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backwards-compatible) enhancement to our current format, finding out this |
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information will be very fast and will allow the Portage system to "find out" |
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the actual category of a random .tbz2 file rather than relying on "contextual" |
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(i.e. what directory it's in) information in order to figure out the category. |
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Best Regards, |
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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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