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From: "Peter S. Mazinger" <ps.m@×××.net>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o, base-system@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-embedded] Re: portage profiles for alternatives (uclibc)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 20:41:25
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0406112229480.6804-100000@lnx.bridge.intra
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] Re: portage profiles for alternatives (uclibc) by Mike Frysinger
1 On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Mike Frysinger wrote:
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3 > On Thursday 10 June 2004 05:32 pm, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
4 > > how to handle for ex. tar's case:
5 > > tar requires: app-arch/gzip, app-arch/bzip2, app-arch/ncompress
6 >
7 > put these entries into your profile and see if it works:
8 > app-arch/gzip sys-apps/busybox
9 > app-arch/bzip2 sys-apps/busybox
10 > app-arch/ncompress sys-apps/busybox
11 >
12 > side note, i thought the included gzip with busybox had some known bugs (at
13 > least the latest 1.00) ? :)
14
15 it has, it can't handle multiple files on the command-line.
16 I am only preparing to replace stuff w/ busybox one by one and tar was a good
17 example, I don't want to go through all ebuilds only once and prepare them
18 to be usable later as busybox "grows up".
19
20 > > Apropos gzip: why are the virtuals not used that already exist (there is a
21 > > virtual/gzip also virtual/dev-manager instead of sys-fs/devfsd)
22 >
23 > the virtual's are used in the stacked profiles ... the idea was to switch over
24 > to the stacked profiles quickly and thus not have to maintain all the other
25 > old profiles since they're a pain
26
27 indeed, there are many diffs that should not be present among the
28 different versions, I can't even decide which is the correct one...
29
30 thanks for the rest of the answers
31
32 Peter
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