Re: [gentoo-dev] New to Gentoo

"Bruce A. Locke" wrote:

> From: "Achim Gottinger" <320095285153-0001@××××××××.de>
> >
> > pkgmerge only handles tbz2 packages.
> >
> > If you want to compile and merge a package from sources you must use
> >
> > ebuild [package].ebuild merge
>
> So I guess this means ebuild doesn't support automatically handling
> dependencies?  As when I go to compile one port, all the ports it depends
> upon are automatically compiled and installed first?
>

I'm not sure if daniel integrated the dependencies code in ebuild 1.5. For
1.4 it is true.
I use a the autocompile.sh script for a full build. It checks if the
dependencies are satisfied and merges the package in this case.
It accepts a list of packages, you can use current-packages.new as a basis
and remove or comment out all packages you don't want.
Then you must set the ROOT variable (use "/" if you want to merge to your
running system).
After that run autocompile.sh [your packagelist] until all packages are
merged.

autocompile.sh understands the following vars

STEPS here you can define what actions ebuild should execute (default "check
clean unpack compile install qmerge clean").
CHECK  if CHECK is set to yes the script only uses packages that are not
installed on the system. if it is set to "package" it only build if there is
no package is /usr/portage/packages/All. If it is set to "no" no checks are
done.
The default is "yes".

autocompile.sh logs all output of ebuild to
/tmp/portage-log/[category]/[packagename]/[action].
If an action fails the packages gets added to /tmp/portage-log/[action]. If
the action succeeds an entry gets removed if he exists.

achim~


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