Re: [gentoo-gnustep] building ebuild for GNUStep application

[Dmitry S. Makovey]

On January 4, 2008, Sourav K. Mandal wrote:
> You can ask one of the GNUstep developers -- why does the gnustep-2
> eclass have a dependency for gnustep-back?  Not all GNUstep-based
> applications are GUI.

I thought this mailing list was the proper place for that :)

> I have other questions/comments about your ebuild, which will help get
> it accepted by the Gentoo devs:
>
> * KEYWORDS should be ~x86/~amd64 until it has passed the testing phase,
> not x86/amd64

yeah - that slipped by as it's just a copy from my local overlay and I didn't 
want to bother with masking/unmasking my own packages.

> * Use "cp -pr" instead of piping with tar

couldn't remember if cp -pr takes care of existing directories (on some 
systems it doesn't (like FBSD)) but tar always produces same result. Not sure 
if it's worth changing for portablity sake.

> * Don't hard code the paths for "openapp" and "oolite.app" in your
> wrapper script.  If there is a working GNUstep installation, openapp
> will be in the PATH, and the app will be found by openapp through
> GNUstep.

ok, fixed that.

>
> * Your DEPEND and RDEPEND are really confusing.  Specifically:
> - Why are the versions for stuff under x86 in RDEPEND, but not in
> DEPEND?  Doesn't amd64 need those minimum versions?
> - Also, doesn't amd64 need x11 and gnustep-env?

yeah, that part was inherited from previous developer and I didn't really 
bother to check since it was working fine for me on amd64.

> Typing this now, it looks like mr_bones already made some comments on
> bugzilla -- hopefully with that and this you can polish off the ebuild.

yeah, there was plenty of feedback :) it's all polished now. I'll submit r5 
now with your suggestions implemented hoping it'll go into portage soon.


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