Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] The merge of emerde with emerge

[Alpt]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:22:56PM +0000, Luke-Jr after a spiritual call wrote  :
~> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 5:55 pm, Alpt wrote:
~> > For those who don't know the story:
~> > Emerde is born on Septmber 2003. It is a port of the portage for
~> > slackware or generic distro. ( http://emerde.freaknet.org )
~> 
~> This doesn't make sense to me... Portage is universal enough to work on any 
~> other common Linux system...

okey, install it in slackware then and use it. let me see please.

~> > In the while I've added various handy features.
~> > These are the additional features added in emerde:
~> > tgz support: A  tgzfile must be a Slackware pkg. Emerde will resolve the
~> >   tgz's dependences and will install it.
~> 
~> Shouldn't be part of Portage. Portage handles ebuilds, not Slackware packages.

It is to let emerde live peacefull in Slackware.

~> > pfile:  Emerde will apply the specified action to all the packages listed
~> > in the pfile
~> 
~> emerge $(cat pfile)

emerde pfile pfile

;)

~> > invulnerable: Updates all the packages which have suid binaries.
~> 
~> What is the purpose behind this? Some kind of bad idea to assume that suid 
~> packages are the only ones with security holes and updates are solely to fix 
~> them?

no, obviously it isn't vital but it is usefull in some cases.

~> > maketgz: Emerde will build  Slackware's  tgz packages for all ebuilds
~> 
~> A better idea would be to convert GRPs to Slackware tgz

Slackware compatibility dude.

~> > skipit:  Emerde allows you to skip to the next merge with the SIGINT signal
~> > or by pressing CTRL+c.
~> 
~> There's usually an order for a reason. Usually, when I press Ctrl-C, I want 
~> emerge to stop altogether.

Yep, but let's assume we are doing "emerde pfile pfile" or in your case
"emerde `pfile`". If you want to skip the current merging you have to
stop emerge, modify the pfile and again "emerde pfile pfile".
It isn't very pretty when you have a list of 50 pkgs and you are arrived
at 50% in the list and you are _not_ doing --update.

~> > Compilation resume:
~> >   Emerde resumes an interrupted or aborted compilation without rebuild
~> >   the pkg and restart the compilation.
~> 
~> Portage already does this for me.

no, if halt the compilation and the next time ./configure will be runned
so you'll start the compilation again.

~> > LAN-sync: The syncing of the portage can be done using another machine that
~> > had already done it. See ACTION:sync in the emerge(1) man page.
~> 
~> See SYNC in /etc/make.conf.example

LAN-sync is: rsync -e mymachine:/usr/portage/ /usr/portage/
you can't do it right now...

~> > --searchcontents:
~> qpkg /path/to/file, no?

emerde -N /path/to/file, no?

~> > buildworld: Rebuilds or updates the "world" file (/var/cache/edb/world)
~> 
~> There's scripts to do this, though these will always be inaccurate hacks, 
~> since you cannot really rebuild the world file.

okey.

~> > por2pkg: por2pkg converts entries in the portage's db to Slack's db
~> > entries. pkg2por: pkg2por converts entries in the Slack's db to portage's
~> > db entries. pordbcheck: Checks if the programs listed in the portage's db
~> > are really installed.
~> 
~> Doesn't belong in a package manager.

Slack compat.

~> > initd-cfg: /etc/init.d editor. 
~> 
~> Doesn't belong in a package manager.

you are managing the init.d files of the packages installed with the
package manager

~> Portage is already distro-independent... The only distros to have considered 
~> using it (Zynot and Utopios) both determined that it would be better to write 
~> a better package manager based on the ideas.

Install it in the other distro then. Did you considered for example
baselayout?

regards
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