Gentoo Archives: gentoo-osx

From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-osx@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-osx] Current installation method
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:16:52
Message-Id: 20060127191605.GE17550@nightcrawler.had1.or.comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-osx] Current installation method by Grobian
1 On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:52:44PM +0100, Grobian wrote:
2 > On 27-01-2006 09:12:43 -0800, Brian Harring wrote:
3 > > > Nope, it's related to the later portage tools dropping 'hardcoded
4 > > > support' for OSX, that's why I haven't keyworded the newer version,
5 > > > because it simply generates python stack traces for some tools (not
6 > > > emerge), which I don't consider to be "good". It was deliberately not
7 > > > fixed (sort of impossible), hence deliberately not keyworded by me.
8 > >
9 > > What tools?
10 > > Granted, buttload of portage bugs (thus easy to miss something), but
11 > > portage bundled tools should be forcing sys.path mangling.
12 >
13 > Bug #113551
14 >
15 > Problem is IMHO that on our current setup our shells don't get the stuff
16 > from portage, because the shells don't come with the gentoo rc scripts.
17
18 Err... legacy crap (yay).
19 Comment regarding "won't be a problem for long"- would be nice having
20 some clarification on that one :)
21
22 The tools that are broken *still* should be external to portage
23 (exception is emaint). Any others, should have the hardcoded
24 insertion.
25 ~harring

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Re: [gentoo-osx] Current installation method Grobian <grobian@g.o>