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On Sunday 09 October 2005 18:57, Rumen Yotov wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 18:19:50 +0000 |
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> Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > I'm getting ready to make a post on bugs.gentoo.org to ask for a |
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> > couple of feature enhancements for portage's emerge routine. I |
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> > thought I'd ask here first, to see how everyone feels about them and |
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> > if there's too much negative response I'll just drop the idea. |
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> > Two new features I'd like to see added are; |
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> > 1- In /etc/make.conf add a new key to FEATURES that would cause |
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> > portage to cleanup the DISTDIR folder if everything emerges cleanly. |
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> > Perhaps "CLEANDIST" or "DISTCLEAN" or something similar would |
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> > suffice. I never, ever keep the source files after a successfully |
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> > emerge session and it would be nice if portage would take care of the |
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> > dirty work for me.... automatically. |
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> Think this is already in Portage (as FEATURE) and is called |
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> "distclean", haven't tried it though - remove source after install. |
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Just to make sure, I looked over the man files once more time. Yes, there's an |
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option named NOCLEAN. It's supposed to stop tmp and source file cleanups... |
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Hmmm.... maybe I found a bug? Cleanups to occur in /var/tmp/portage but never |
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the source files in distfiles. |
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> > 2- We have "emerge world" that covers everything already installed |
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> > and "emerge sys" that covers all the system related stuff.... How |
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> > about "emerge apps" that would ONLY cover things NOT in "emerge |
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> > sys"? Face it, it'd be nice.... Right now, I have to resort to extra |
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> > steps to "emerge apps" and well... it'd be a nicer chore for portage |
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> > to handle. |
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> What about e.g."emerge -ev gnome", think this will work, specially for |
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> meta-packages. Tried it - too many packages, catches deps of deps etc. |
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Yeah, same here for a number of packages. "Emerge apps" would be better if |
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available. |
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> > 3- Make a list of hooks available to hackers, like myself. I know I |
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> > can implement the above features, but the emerge source is huge and |
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> > teasing out the details is proving more time consumeing than actually |
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> > implementing new code. Perhaps in /etc/make.conf there could be |
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> > config lines like, "EXECUTE_AFTER_OK_EMERGE" and we could fill in a |
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> > path to our own cleanup scripts... Or maybe |
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> > "EXECUTE_AFTER_BAD_EMERGE" in the same case as above, but after a bad |
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> > emerge run, etc.... |
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> > So, what do you guys/gals think? |
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> HTH.Rumen |
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