Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: drobbins@g.o
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New to Gentoo
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:26:33
Message-Id: 20010220082633.B12150@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New to Gentoo by "Bruce A. Locke"
1 On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:12:41AM -0500, Bruce A. Locke wrote:
2 > From: "Achim Gottinger" <320095285153-0001@××××××××.de>
3 > >
4 > > pkgmerge only handles tbz2 packages.
5 > >
6 > > If you want to compile and merge a package from sources you must use
7 > >
8 > > ebuild [package].ebuild merge
9 >
10 > So I guess this means ebuild doesn't support automatically handling
11 > dependencies? As when I go to compile one port, all the ports it depends
12 > upon are automatically compiled and installed first?
13
14 No, ebuild doesn't support this yet, but will soon. I'm behind in my "real"
15 work, so I need to put Portage development on hold through the end of the
16 month. You can see the features that haven't yet been implemented by reading
17 /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/1.5/doc/TODO.
18
19 Best Regards,
20
21 --
22 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
23 President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
24 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.