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From: drobbins@g.o
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5_pre Update
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:08:43
Message-Id: 20010216100843.C25764@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5_pre Update by 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
1 On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:23:07PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
2
3 > > /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/foo-1.0
4 > >
5 > > CFLAGS Optimization flags used to compile foo-1.0
6 > > CXXFLAGS C++ optimization flags used to compile foo-1.0
7 > > CHOST The setting of CHOST used to compile foo-1.0
8 > > USE The "use" settings enabled at the time foo-1.0 was compiled
9 > > PROVIDES The virtual packages that foo-1.0 provides
10 > > CATEGORY Package category
11 > > PF Full package name
12 > > RDEPEND Runtime dependencies
13 > > LICENSE License information
14 > >
15
16 > You dropped the revision from the package-dir name I think. Good.
17
18 Not yet, but we should do that. Let's get a list of minor fixes such as this
19 and then I'll apply them all in one go.
20
21 > Should we write a converter script for old-sytle packages?
22
23 Good idea.
24
25 > > pkgmerge also supports a new option, "--pretend". If you specify it as the first
26 > > argument, pkgmerge will tell you the packages it would install (in order), rather
27 > > than actually installing them.
28 >
29 > This is definately a good thing. Does it output the dependencie from DEPEND or the resolved
30 > depedencie.
31
32 # pkgmerge --pretend libmng-1.0.0.tbz2
33 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
34 /usr/portage/packages/All/lcms-1.06.tbz2
35 /usr/portage/packages/All/libmng-1.0.0.tbz2
36
37 > Thank you for that big peace of work daniel.
38
39 You're welcome! I've just committed a pkgmerge fix to Portage; a last-minute change to
40 portage.py caused it to die.
41
42 --
43 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
44 President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
45 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.