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On Saturday 06 March 2010 12:19:19 Mark David Dumlao wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> I'm wondering if anyone's written a script that looks deep into the |
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> build dependencies of some package foo, and gives you a list of |
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> ebuilds you need to unmask to build it. Immediate build dependencies |
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> could easily be shown using the ebuild itself, and deep dependencies |
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> could be shown using equery something, but I just want to focus on |
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> dependencies you need to unmask when building. |
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> I usually just manually iterate through emerge -uDNtav world/something |
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> to make something like that happen, and it's just hit me that this |
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> sounds like a chore that's bound to have bugged someone. |
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> I'm not looking for a tool that writes my package.keywords/* for me, |
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> I'd like to do that myself, but the iteration process is more painful |
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> than it should be "manually". If there's none I was wondering what |
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> kinds of challenges would it take to write one in python as that |
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> sounds like a cool exercise to try out. |
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Have you looked at autounmask? |
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Does it do what you need? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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