Re: [gentoo-server] Binary packages without development files

[Joby Walker]

I'd probably just run a cron job every hour or so to delete these files.

But it would be nice there was an additional emerge option that if when 
paired with -b or -B would not include the includes or static libraries.

jbw

Mike Culbertson wrote:
> Does anyone know of an existing way in which to not include development
> related files in binary package builds, so as to generate packages that would
> be more apprpriate for a server?
>
> Case in point, I have an NFS server that neither builds it's own packages nor
> does it have any use for any headers or static libraries (or even gcc for
> that matter).  I can manually remove stuff from /usr/include, /usr/lib/*.a,
> etc but next round of upgrades and all the dev related files would be back,
> so it would be very handy to generate packages that did not have the files to
> begin with.
>
> From what I've seen, I have a few current options:
>
> 1) custom ebuilds - this would be a bit of a management nightmare
> 2) system imager - in progress, but I would rather have the control at the
> package level since the "golden client" would still need to be fixed.
> 3) scripts that clean files after package installs - again, it would be nice
> not to have any files to clean rather than to delete them after the fact.
>
> Any of these is do-able in one context or another, but they still remain as a
> way to override what is installed with a package, rather than remedying the
> package itself.
>
> Does anyone have something more elegant or perhaps know of tools that can
> control the contents of a binary package without having to manually manage
> the ebuild?
>
> TIA
>
> Mike Culbertson