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On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 16:58 -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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> > apk-tools (http://apk-tools.sourceforge.net). (the reason I didn't used |
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> > the native gentoo binary package is that it has no support for custom |
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> > pre/post install scripts, and you cant exclude things like documetnation |
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> > in the tbz2, even if you can exclude it dureing extraction. At that |
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> > point there was no qmerge either) |
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> FEATURES="nodoc noinfo noman" should solve at least some of those |
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> issues, I should think. |
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I know. But the tbz2 packages are not really designed for embedded and |
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was not good enough, unfortunally. I actually did try (search |
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gentoo-embedded and you'll see i even wrote some code for it). |
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But there were other issues too. Lots of broken RDEPEND's in ebuilds (+ |
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very complicated) made me to rather rescan the dependencies using |
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NEEDED. |
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I ended up with writing an own package manager that did exactly what i |
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wanted. (it can install packages from ftp, http, rsync, ssh + local |
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mounted media - and it "feels" alot like freebsd's pkg_add) |
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Natanael Copa |
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