[gentoo-embedded] Re: portage profiles for alternatives (uclibc)

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 10 June 2004 05:32 pm, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> how to handle for ex. tar's case:
> tar requires: app-arch/gzip, app-arch/bzip2, app-arch/ncompress

put these entries into your profile and see if it works:
app-arch/gzip                sys-apps/busybox
app-arch/bzip2              sys-apps/busybox
app-arch/ncompress      sys-apps/busybox

side note, i thought the included gzip with busybox had some known bugs (at 
least the latest 1.00) ? :)

> Apropos gzip: why are the virtuals not used that already exist (there is a
> virtual/gzip also virtual/dev-manager instead of sys-fs/devfsd)

the virtual's are used in the stacked profiles ... the idea was to switch over 
to the stacked profiles quickly and thus not have to maintain all the other 
old profiles since they're a pain

> ok, I understand this, but for the build system itself autoconf is not
> present, so can't run it either, and have to provide the result of
> autoconf as patch, so it should not be in the packages.build file at all

true enough, but i still said you can remove packages from the profile in the 
stackable world :P

> do you mean using
> -<package>
> This is supposed to work only w/ the stackable structure, right?

yes ... if it doesnt, file a bug
-mike

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