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On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 16:05 -0700, Nimish Pachapurkar wrote: |
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> Hello All, |
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> I have been fiddling with Portage for a few weeks now. Recently, I was |
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> trying to get the RPM creation with ebuild to work a little better. I |
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> noticed that currently emerge does not support building RPMs, but ebuild |
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> does. |
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> I have added some code to emerge that can build RPM for a package and |
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> all its dependencies. It will optionally merge the package to the system |
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> or just build an RPM. I am basically making this work very similar to |
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> the --buildpkg and --buildpkgonly options. |
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> I am using --buildrpm (-r) and --buildrpmonly (-R) options currently for |
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> these two tasks. However, if those two short options are reserved for |
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> some other purpose, I am fine with changing them. (If so, please suggest |
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> different short options). |
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> If this functionality is likely to be useful to other people also, I |
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> would love to submit a patch. |
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> I think I have somewhat older version of portage. Which version should I |
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> build the patch against, if I have to? |
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2.1 is in a feature freeze right now. Everybody is trying to tidy up |
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existing functionality in preparation for 2006.1 But that would of |
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otherwise been the branch of seen it committed to. probably best to |
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give it a few weeks and revisit. |
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rpm support however needs more than a few emerge switches. The existing |
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package itself of rpm in the tree has a few problems and really needs a |
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maintainer. Also portage's auto spec generation is on the side of far |
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to basic to really be useful. |
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A while ago a user Peter S. Mazinger <ps.m@×××.net> and myself |
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discussed in semi detail a lot of the problems surrounding rpm support |
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and later he sent me some patches that interpolated nicely with the |
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existing rpm based distros. I mirrored those patches and they are |
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all tagged with the names of the portage-rpm-*.patch |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/patch_overlay/sys-apps/portage/ |
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You may find some of those patches inspirational to your work. |
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good luck. |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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Gentoo Linux |
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