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On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:47:26 +0000 |
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Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:06:51 +0100 |
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> Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> wrote: |
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> > The idea is to add a special category (let's call it "active" for |
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> > now) that has the following properties: |
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> > - this category doesn't exist in portdir or vdb (= no ebuilds) |
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> > - when portage ($pkgmanager) encounters a "active/foo" atom in a |
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> > dependency string it executes some special code (e.g. |
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> > "$PORTDIR/scripts/active-check/foo =active/foo-1") to determine if |
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> > that atom is satisfied |
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> Given that in the general case the package manager can't change the |
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> active provider and will have to bail with an appropriate message that |
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> the user needs to change it themselves, the obvious solution to this is |
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> the previously-discussed-somewhere-I-can't-remember ebuild function, |
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> called on depgraph creation, to check that it will be able to compile |
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> in the current system environment. It's considerably simpler and more |
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> generally useful than subverting DEPEND to add weird special-case hacks |
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> to it. |
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Yeah, thinking about it I have to agree tat generic dep_check() support (to give the thing a name) would be a better solution here. |
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Marius |
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