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On Wednesday 01 December 2004 5:55 pm, Alpt wrote: |
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> For those who don't know the story: |
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> Emerde is born on Septmber 2003. It is a port of the portage for |
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> slackware or generic distro. ( http://emerde.freaknet.org ) |
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This doesn't make sense to me... Portage is universal enough to work on any |
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other common Linux system... |
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> In the while I've added various handy features. |
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> These are the additional features added in emerde: |
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> tgz support: A tgzfile must be a Slackware pkg. Emerde will resolve the |
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> tgz's dependences and will install it. |
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Shouldn't be part of Portage. Portage handles ebuilds, not Slackware packages. |
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> pfile: Emerde will apply the specified action to all the packages listed |
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> in the pfile |
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emerge $(cat pfile) |
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> invulnerable: Updates all the packages which have suid binaries. |
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What is the purpose behind this? Some kind of bad idea to assume that suid |
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packages are the only ones with security holes and updates are solely to fix |
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them? |
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> maketgz: Emerde will build Slackware's tgz packages for all ebuilds |
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A better idea would be to convert GRPs to Slackware tgz |
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> skipit: Emerde allows you to skip to the next merge with the SIGINT signal |
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> or by pressing CTRL+c. |
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There's usually an order for a reason. Usually, when I press Ctrl-C, I want |
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emerge to stop altogether. |
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> Compilation resume: |
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> Emerde resumes an interrupted or aborted compilation without rebuild |
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> the pkg and restart the compilation. |
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Portage already does this for me. |
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> LAN-sync: The syncing of the portage can be done using another machine that |
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> had already done it. See ACTION:sync in the emerge(1) man page. |
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See SYNC in /etc/make.conf.example |
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> --searchcontents: |
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> Emerde matches the search string against the contents field. The pkg's |
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> contents field contains a list of files and directories |
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> installed. This option is useful to know to what pkg a file or a directory |
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> belong. --showcontents: This option is the same as the --search one except |
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> that it shows all the contents file of the searched packages. |
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qpkg /path/to/file, no? |
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> buildworld: Rebuilds or updates the "world" file (/var/cache/edb/world) |
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There's scripts to do this, though these will always be inaccurate hacks, |
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since you cannot really rebuild the world file. Also note, it's |
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in /var/lib/portage/world now |
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> por2pkg: por2pkg converts entries in the portage's db to Slack's db |
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> entries. pkg2por: pkg2por converts entries in the Slack's db to portage's |
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> db entries. pordbcheck: Checks if the programs listed in the portage's db |
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> are really installed. |
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Doesn't belong in a package manager. |
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> initd-cfg: /etc/init.d editor. |
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Doesn't belong in a package manager. |
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> If I can jump in the coding with you, I can live in peace with emerde |
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> because all the changes will be already built in and in the near future |
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> emerde won't be needed anymore. The goal is to make the portage distro |
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> independent. |
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Portage is already distro-independent... The only distros to have considered |
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using it (Zynot and Utopios) both determined that it would be better to write |
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a better package manager based on the ideas. |
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OpenEmbedded modified Portage a bit, but needed too many features added to |
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stay compatible with ebuilds. |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Utopios |
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http://utopios.org/ |
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