Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse portage package

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Chuck Robey <chuckr@×××××××.org> wrote:
> I was checking to see what version of eclipse seems to have a portage package,
> and I was kinda shocked that the package seems a bit outdated.  3.4 is the
> current portage package, but eclipse has been at 3.5 for a good while now.
> Seeing as the eclipse website has a linux binary 3.5+ package, unless I've
> overlooked something available from gentoo (I would be overjoyed to have made
> that mistake) then I'm going to be forced to see how to coax portage to allow me
> to use that eclipse site binary package to sub for ALL eclipse packages.
>
> Anyone know how to get portage to make externally supplied binaries to supply
> portage eclipse dependencies?  All of the huge number of eclipse plugins can be
> done without using portage just fine, but the eclipse itself, that I would
> really rather use a portage ebuild for installation.
>
>
>

I don't know about installing binary stuff - probably wouldn't work
unless you have exactly the right libraries and what not. Anyway, I
seem to see a 3.5 version masked with ~ . Note that I would unmask it
in portage.keywords and not the way I'm showing it below.

HTH,
Mark

mark@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ eix eclipse
* dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj
     Available versions:
        (3.3)   3.3.0-r1
        (3.4)   3.4
        (3.5)   ~3.5.1
        {elibc_FreeBSD}
     Homepage:            http://www.eclipse.org/
     Description:         Ant Compiler Adapter for Eclipse Java Compiler

* dev-java/eclipse-ecj
     Available versions:
        (3.3)   3.3.0-r3
        (3.4)   3.4-r4
        (3.5)   ~3.5.1
        {ant elibc_FreeBSD java6}
     Homepage:            http://www.eclipse.org/
     Description:         Eclipse Compiler for Java

* dev-util/eclipse-sdk
     Available versions:  (3.4)  3.4-r2
        {doc elibc_FreeBSD java6}
     Homepage:            http://www.eclipse.org/
     Description:         Eclipse Tools Platform

Found 3 matches.
mark@dragonfly ~/Desktop $


dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv eclipse-ecj

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] app-admin/eselect-ecj-0.3  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.4-r4  USE="-java6" 1,251 kB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1,251 kB
dragonfly ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv eclipse-ecj

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/pyxml-0.8.4-r2  USE="-doc -examples" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/javatoolkit-0.3.0-r3  17 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/ant-core-1.7.1-r4  USE="-doc -source" 6,828 kB
[ebuild  N    ] app-admin/eselect-ecj-0.3  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.5.1  USE="ant" 1,268 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj-3.5.1  0 kB

Total: 6 packages (6 new), Size of downloads: 8,111 kB
dragonfly ~