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Oh, I see. I wasn't aware that there were identical packages in different |
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directories. Thanks for explaining that =) |
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What about with those of us running pre2, and upgrading to pre4 when it is |
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released? How is that going to work? Or will we have to do a fresh install |
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of the new version? |
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Cheers, |
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Sean |
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>From: <drobbins@g.o> |
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>Reply-To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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>To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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>Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple dependencies with installing packages |
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>from the CD |
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>Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 16:11:04 -0700 |
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> |
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>On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 08:06:45PM -0000, Sean Cull wrote: |
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> |
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> > Regarding the recursive package merge, couldn't one just modify the |
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>ebuild |
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> > script mentioned in your bash tutorial on IBM Developerworks and add |
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>some |
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> > lines in to check the dependencies, then if it needs, say, |
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>Gnomelibs-1.0.4 |
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> > (or whatever the current version is), it searches the "All" directory |
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>for |
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> > the appropriate package and installs it before returning to the original |
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> > package you wanted to install. I guess this is how the FreeBSD ports |
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>system |
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> > works. Or would something like that need to be written in something |
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>other |
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> > than a scripting language? |
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> > If I'm totally wrong on this, sorry... I'm still learning =) |
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> |
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>We can't just use the "All" directory because we have some packages with |
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>identical names, but in different categories. For example, there's |
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>sys-build/gcc and sys-devel/gcc. The only way to deal with this is to |
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>actually |
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>look inside the package at the packaging information, and this is a very |
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>slow |
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>process with our current package format. Once we add an (mostly |
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>backwards-compatible) enhancement to our current format, finding out this |
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>information will be very fast and will allow the Portage system to "find |
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>out" |
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>the actual category of a random .tbz2 file rather than relying on |
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>"contextual" |
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>(i.e. what directory it's in) information in order to figure out the |
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>category. |
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> |
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>Best Regards, |
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> |
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>-- |
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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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