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Hello! |
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Sorry cross-posting, I do not really know who is in charge. |
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Working on a uclibc based gentoo-system, I came across following problem: |
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All the profiles use direct names for the packages[.build] or in the |
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base|embedded|hardened new stackable structure (is stackable working?) |
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like app-arch/tar (the ebuilds refer also to this). For embedded/uclibc, |
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this could be replaced by busybox, or yacc could be replaced by using |
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bison's yacc.bison shell script. |
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The current approach does not allow replacement of some/all of the |
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packages for other platforms, my proposal would be to use only virtual |
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names for build/system and define these differently for glibc/uclibc (and |
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maybe others). This would also require, that the all of the ebuilds |
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requirement for a base system refer only to the virtual name in |
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[R]DEPEND. I know that this requires many changes, but would facilitate |
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the support of other system not fully gnu-based. |
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Ex. virtual/baselayout for glibc points to sys-apps/baselayout, for |
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uclibc/embedded would point to sys-apps/baselayout (when finished) |
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The ebuilds should refer to the direct names only if it is really a |
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requirement to have that version. |
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Other issues encountered: |
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1. the gettext package is always required for emerge system (but this in |
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most cases only an nls requirement), building w/o nls does not/should not |
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need gettext (some packages need patches for this) |
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2. groff requires c++ (and is used by man), if an embedded system does not |
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need c++ and does not use man[-pages] (installing w/ noman) then groff |
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does not have to be installed either, (and c++/libstdc++) |
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3. uclibc does not support pam, so the package pam/pam-login/pwdb should |
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also be optional (based on pam use flag) |
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4. is bc/bin86 required for a base system? |
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5. sys-libs/db is requirement, how about virtual/db (that could be berkdb |
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or gdbm, based on the use flag) |
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6. busybox currently could replace partially |
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gawk/sed/tar/cpio/findutils/coreutils/grep, |
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debianutils/kbd/procps/psmisc/gzip/bzip2/which/patch/nano(vi)/modutils/ |
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diffutils/sharutils/sash/iputils/wget/util-linux/net-tools/fbset |
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instead of less it could use more, w/ some shell script to support the |
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less flags, so all these are candidates for virtual |
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(it does not have all of the utilities, only a minimal set of it in most |
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cases) |
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7. cracklib (checked only the base system) is only required if shadow or |
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pam are needed, embedded does not need to have either of them, so this |
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should be only gotten by a use flag, not required for the base system |
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8. gawk provides libfuncs.so, if this could be a separate package (it |
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builds currently only against gawk headers), it could be used on systems |
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where only mawk or busybox awk are installed |
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9. maybe ncurses->libtermcap? |
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10. to simplify all ebuilds, the disable-nls/enable-nls |
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(--without-included-gettext?) stuff could be auto-added to econf, based on |
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nls) |
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Any thoughts? |
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Peter S. Mazinger <ps dot m at gmx dot net> ID: 0xA5F059F2 |
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