Re: [gentoo-dev] custom portage sections?

Re: [gentoo-dev] custom portage sections?

[Bob Phan]

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Zach Forrest wrote:

> Jean-Michel Smith wrote:
> > On Monday 13 May 2002 12:01 pm, Zach Forrest wrote:
> > 
> >>I believe you'll need to add your category to:
> >>   /usr/portage/profiles/categories
> > 
> > 
> > That was indeed the trick I was looking for!  Many thanks!
> > 
> I'm glad it worked. I just wanted to mention that I don't think the 
> categories file is config protected, so you might have to modify it 
> whenever portage is updated, or add the /usr/portage/profiles directory 
> to CONFIG_PROTECT (which would be a *huge* pain to protect that one 
> file). I think a better idea would be to have a CATEGORIES variable in 
> /etc/make.globals that would allow the addition of custom categories; 
> the categories would then be composed of the official categories with 
> the custom categories listed in CATEGORIES appended to the list. You 
> might want to file a feature request through bugzilla for this.

Personally, I feel an even more elegant way to solve this, that would
benefit more than just custom categories, is to allow CONFIG_PROTECT
to contain individual files as well directories, which is very simple
to implement.

It would also be nice to be able to un-protect files and
subdirectories of protected directories, but that probably wouldn't be
as simple to implement.

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[gentoo-dev] custom portage sections?

[Jean-Michel Smith]

Hi,

I am trying to create custom portage sections to hold ebuilds for in-house 
software, e.g. /usr/portage/kcco-libs, /usr/portage/kcco-apps, etc.).  
Unfortunately emerge doesn't seem to be able to find any ebuilds located in 
these directories (though if I move them to one of the already existing 
directories they work fine).

Is there a trick I'm missing in adding a custom section to the portage tree, 
or is this hardcoded into the portage utilities somewhere?

tia,

Jean.

Re: [gentoo-dev] custom portage sections?

[Zach Forrest]

I believe you'll need to add your category to:
   /usr/portage/profiles/categories

zach

Jean-Michel Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to create custom portage sections to hold ebuilds for in-house 
> software, e.g. /usr/portage/kcco-libs, /usr/portage/kcco-apps, etc.).  
> Unfortunately emerge doesn't seem to be able to find any ebuilds located in 
> these directories (though if I move them to one of the already existing 
> directories they work fine).
> 
> Is there a trick I'm missing in adding a custom section to the portage tree, 
> or is this hardcoded into the portage utilities somewhere?
> 
> tia,
> 
> Jean.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] custom portage sections?

[Jean-Michel Smith]

On Monday 13 May 2002 12:01 pm, Zach Forrest wrote:
> I believe you'll need to add your category to:
>    /usr/portage/profiles/categories

That was indeed the trick I was looking for!  Many thanks!

Jean.

Re: [gentoo-dev] custom portage sections?

[Zach Forrest]

I'm glad it worked. I just wanted to mention that I don't think the 
categories file is config protected, so you might have to modify it 
whenever portage is updated, or add the /usr/portage/profiles directory 
to CONFIG_PROTECT (which would be a *huge* pain to protect that one 
file). I think a better idea would be to have a CATEGORIES variable in 
/etc/make.globals that would allow the addition of custom categories; 
the categories would then be composed of the official categories with 
the custom categories listed in CATEGORIES appended to the list. You 
might want to file a feature request through bugzilla for this.

Regards,
Zach

Jean-Michel Smith wrote:
> On Monday 13 May 2002 12:01 pm, Zach Forrest wrote:
> 
>>I believe you'll need to add your category to:
>>   /usr/portage/profiles/categories
> 
> 
> That was indeed the trick I was looking for!  Many thanks!
> 
> Jean.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gentoo-dev mailing list
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
> 

Re: [gentoo-dev] custom portage sections?

[Zach Forrest]

Bob Phan wrote:
<snip>
> 
> 
> Personally, I feel an even more elegant way to solve this, that would
> benefit more than just custom categories, is to allow CONFIG_PROTECT
> to contain individual files as well directories, which is very simple
> to implement.
> 
> It would also be nice to be able to un-protect files and
> subdirectories of protected directories, but that probably wouldn't be
> as simple to implement.
> 

I do agree that it would be nice to add individual files to 
CONFIG_PROTECT, but I also think a 'CATEGORIES' variable has merit. This 
allows the separation of stock gentoo categories from custom ones. For 
example, in make.conf, you specify the USE variable you want for your 
system while make.defaults holds the profile default USE variables. I 
prefer to have my configuration in a standard place (e.g. 
/etc/make.globals or /etc/make.conf).

Let me know what you think.

Zach

Re: [gentoo-dev] custom portage sections?

[Todd Wright]

> > Personally, I feel an even more elegant way to solve this, that would
> > benefit more than just custom categories, is to allow CONFIG_PROTECT
> > to contain individual files as well directories, which is very simple
> > to implement.
> >
> > It would also be nice to be able to un-protect files and
> > subdirectories of protected directories, but that probably wouldn't be
> > as simple to implement.
> >
>
> I do agree that it would be nice to add individual files to
> CONFIG_PROTECT, but I also think a 'CATEGORIES' variable has merit. This
> allows the separation of stock gentoo categories from custom ones. For
> example, in make.conf,

I'd have to agree with the CATEGORIES variable.

CONFIG_PROTECT is not going to help you.  This isnt a config file to be
protected. It is the "EMERGE RSYNC" that is going to overwrite the
categories file and theres not a lot you can do about that, as it simply
mirrors the official portage tree.  Adding a CATEGORIES shell variable in
make.conf seems an elegent way to solve this, but then my opinions dont seem
to carry much weight around here.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] custom portage sections?

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Monday 13 May 2002 15:46, Bob Phan wrote:
>
> Personally, I feel an even more elegant way to solve this, that would
> benefit more than just custom categories, is to allow CONFIG_PROTECT
> to contain individual files as well directories, which is very simple
> to implement.

For this particular problem, I feel a CATEGORIES variable is more appropriate, 
since this will allow new categories to be taken into account. Protecting 
files is a good solution for other profile related problems.

>
> It would also be nice to be able to un-protect files and
> subdirectories of protected directories, but that probably wouldn't be
> as simple to implement.

That is possible, there is a mask variable (I don't recall the name)

Paul

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