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On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:38:31PM +0000, Joe Bormolini wrote: |
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> Is it possible to make a package from the information in /var/db/pkg ? I |
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> don't want to have to recompile the whole thing just to make a package of |
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> what I already have available =) Just a thought... I hope this is (or |
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> becomes) a planned feature. |
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> --lordjoe |
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Well, even if we hacked our md5 digests to work in /var/db/pkg, it would only |
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work for packages that don't reference anything in ${FILESDIR}. Quite a few |
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use auxilliary files and patches, and these things aren't available in |
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/var/db/pkg. So it wouldn't really work. |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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