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On Jul 31, 2005, at 11:54, Finn Thain wrote: |
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> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Philipp Riegger wrote: |
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>> On 31. Jul 2005, at 9:29 Uhr, Finn Thain wrote: |
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>>> Hasan, you mentioned pathspec and prefixed installs, and future |
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>>> portage features to accomodate these. Is there more information |
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>>> available anywhere on the portage roadmap and the particular future |
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>>> portage features you are referring to? |
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>> this is exactly what i wanted to know, thank you for asking the |
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>> question |
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>> i could not express. :-) |
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> After googling for quite some time, I did find the answers: no, |
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> there is |
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> nothing relevant on the portage roadmap document [1], but the missing |
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> portage features have been discussed on the dev list. |
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> There's at least one bugzilla entry [2] that refers to the relevant |
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> portage features apparently under development. |
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> The relevant comments in that bug apparently come from the |
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> discussion of |
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> Michael Haubenwallner's draft GLEP [3], which is designed to |
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> provide for |
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> prefixed package installs on non-Gentoo O/S's. The thread is worth |
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> a read, |
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> if you can tolerate the obligatory naysaying and bickering. It is |
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> inconclusive, but represents real progress. |
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> As for pathspec, there is nothing to be found. Even drobbins original, |
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> rather inspired, description is long gone [4]. By contrast, Michael |
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> Haubenwallner's proposal for prefixed installs appears to be alive and |
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> kicking. |
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> Finally, there is this post [5] from Feburary, indicating that the |
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> is to be tackled by the Gentoo/OS X devs this year. |
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> -f |
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> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/ |
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> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87877 |
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> [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/27569 |
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> [4] http://web.archive.org/web/20040407083519/www.gentoo.org/proj/ |
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> en/gentoo-alt/macos-1.xml#doc_chap2_sect4 |
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> [5] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/25299 |
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Whoa. Looks like you covered pretty much everything I'd have to say |
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on the topic. Good job! 10,000 brownie points for Finn. |
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Basically, Brian Harring (ferringb) is deeply involved in rewriting |
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much of the portage internals. Once the rewrite is complete, we can |
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expect things like ICANINSTALLTO (from [1] above) to be implemented |
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very easily. |
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Brian needs help. If you're willing to help, contact him, or join |
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#gentoo-portage on freenode. |
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Hasan Khalil |
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eBuild and Porting Co-Lead |
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Gentoo for Mac OS X |