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From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dynamic SLOTs
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 03:05:14
Message-Id: 20040805030055.GJ11463@time.flatmonk.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dynamic SLOTs by Jason Stubbs
1 Jason Stubbs wrote: [Wed Aug 04 2004, 07:47:41PM EDT]
2 > On Thursday 05 August 2004 05:11, Aron Griffis wrote:
3 > > Jason Stubbs wrote: [Wed Aug 04 2004, 10:28:04AM EDT]
4 > >
5 > > > 4. Fix ebuilds so that they link against ${ROOT} rather than assuming
6 > > > "/".
7 > >
8 > > This sounds Really Hard.
9 > >
10 > > How about devising a method to chroot to ${ROOT} for src_compile when
11 > > [[ ${ROOT} != / ]]. I know this would require some work, but it just
12 > > might be less work than fixing the ebuilds to link against ${ROOT},
13 > > which sounds extremely tedious and error-prone.
14 >
15 > That would require getting the immediate build deps and the deep
16 > runtime build deps copied into a temporary directory within $ROOT at
17 > the start of every emerge. It would also require every ebuild to be
18 > updated so that all deps, including those in system, are listed.
19
20 I must really be missing something. I thought that if you're "fixing
21 ebuilds so they link against ${ROOT}" then you must already have what
22 you need in ${ROOT}, right?
23
24 It seems like either method depends on that. I'm sure I'm missing
25 something...
26
27 Regards,
28 Aron
29
30 --
31 Aron Griffis
32 Gentoo Linux Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Dynamic SLOTs Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>