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On Oct 12, 2005, at 2:09 AM, Mike S wrote: |
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> I am also inclined to wait for the next release for prefix support |
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> which opens up a few new tricks that I am familiar with. Also Tony |
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> asked me, and I would like to know if there is an experimental |
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> portage out there that has prefix support in it, that we could |
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> compile and play with, and if not when the next release is due. |
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Thanks to Brian Ferring, Michael Haubi, and a few others, last night |
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I was able to properly bootstrap portage in a prefix for the first |
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time...WOOT! No ebuilds that do anything useful, and many things are |
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broken, but its a start. I hope to release a stage0 tarball for OS X |
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devs very shortly, assuming I can keep Real Life and Work at bay for |
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a bit :p |
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Once we have a tarball to start from, there will either be a prefixed |
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portage svn branch in the mainline module, or possibly in the alt |
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repo, thats up to the portage devs as to how they want to handle |
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that. Adding prefix support is anything but trivial, so the patch is |
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rather large...it will be some work to stay inline with upstream for |
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sure. |
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You can find some things here in the meantime: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~ferringb/portage/prefix/ |
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But its not trivial to get it going, and no docs or anything yet.... |
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Also Mike: you might also pop into #gentoo-alt, #gentoo-portage and |
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peruse the gentoo-alt@ and gentoo-portage-dev@ ML archives, as the OS |
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X team isn't the only ones with a vested interest in prefixes... |
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Theres a couple people working on it for things like aix as well. |
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--Kito |
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