Re: [gentoo-dev] macos mess

[Pieter Van den Abeele]

Hi,

I've changed my mind. I'm not going to change the virtual file 
semantics in the MacOS profiles to get repoman to stop complaining. 
Instead I wrote a small (4 lines) patch for repoman which does the 
folowing:

When repoman detects a macos-specific unsatisfied dependency it will 
check the packages.build file, which on macos specifies the packages 
that are injected as base system. (Packages.build normally specifies 
what is in a stage1.) If the dependency is mentioned in that file, the 
dependency is considered satisfied.

I wasn't able to test the file because I couldn't get repoman to 
complain about macos on any of my linux systems in the first place. 
(sparc64, x86 and ppc, standard portage .51_pre13). Not sure why, but 
it ain't kosher. (My machines are on the net, feel free to ask for an 
account and investigate) Lv got his portage to complain about macos 
after patching it with the patch mentioned earlier in this thread.

http://www.metadistribution.org/gentoo/macos-support.patch for the 
untested patch, I hope it illustrates the idea.

Best regards,

Pieter Van den Abeele


On 24 Jul 2004, at 21:58, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:

> I've appended the packages.build file contents to the virtuals file
> content in the macos repoman profile (10.3).
> Please let me know if repoman still complains.
>
> Pieter
>
> On 24 Jul 2004, at 21:30, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 24 July 2004 03:24 pm, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
>>> Also, how do versions come into play?
>>
>> i'm not proposing a solution to people using macos, like i said, i
>> dont care
>> about that
>>
>> i was giving a solution to the repoman crap that the macos KEYWORD
>> has left in
>> the tree
>> -mike
>>
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