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On Wednesday 01 December 2004 22:14, Colin Kingsley wrote: |
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> > emerge $(cat pfile) |
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> Stop being pedantic. Clearly, the point of this function is to make it |
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> easy to perform actions on large groups of packages without shell |
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> magic. |
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What's wrong with shell magic? It defines unix. Gentoo is not in the |
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business of making MsWormOS |
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> > A better idea would be to convert GRPs to Slackware tgz |
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> How would this be any different? or better? I'd say the ability to |
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> create, as well as install third party packages is kind of nifty. Why |
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> would it be better to convert a Gentoo package instead of natively |
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> creating the .tgz? |
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Converting .tbz2 packages means that the problems are split up. In a |
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future modular portage, tgz, deb, rpm, etc. creation could be performed |
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by modules. Until that time, I think it should happen externally. |
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> > > Compilation resume: |
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> > > Emerde resumes an interrupted or aborted compilation without |
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> > > rebuild the pkg and restart the compilation. |
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> > Portage already does this for me. |
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> No it doesn't. He means that a compile would be resumed from where |
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> ever it left off, as if you were doing ./configure && make && make |
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> install style compilation. Currently, portage will pick up from the |
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> beginning of the package that was being compiled when it died. |
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There is a reason that ./configure is rerun. Also most packages have nice |
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makefiles that do not recompile the parts that have been missing. For |
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this you do indeed need the ebuild tool as there is no guarantee that it |
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is actually safe. |
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> No? Then where would a tool to manipulate _package_ databases belong? |
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In a slackware specific wrapper package that wraps around portage such |
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that it gets more slack compatibility. Such a package would also ensure |
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that the core packages do not come from the gentoo tree, but from |
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slackware. |
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Paul |
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ps. I myself consider running hybrid distributions dangerous. |
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-- |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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