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Howdy! |
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For some time now, I've wished that there was a way to check for |
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other packages' versions when inside an ebuild. I know that there |
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are a whole bunch of packages that check for versions of GCC, etc, |
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using strange and convoluted sed/awk/etc statements. Which is |
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all well and good, but I've always felt that there should be a more |
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"clean" way to do it, that would be applicable to all packages as |
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well. |
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Well, today I finally did something about it, and you can read about |
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the fruits of my ten-minute-long labor here: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9910 |
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Using my script, it'd be possible to do things like this in an ebuild: |
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version ">=gcc-3.0" && apply_gcc_3_patch() |
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Etcetera. I'm posting here, too, in the hopes that it'll get a |
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wider audience and thus be more likely to be cleaned up and eventually |
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make it into portage. |
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That is all. |
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-CJ |
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