Re: [gentoo-dev] portage-1.5_pre7

[Philippe Namias <pn@novadeck.net>]

Hi all,

Just for telling that i just emerge during all the weekend and nearly install 
all the package using emerge. So far with no problem.

But i have a few question :

Why after merging a packages we leave data in /tmp/portage/package_name ?

Is it normal that i can do emerge packgae_name as many time that i want ?

For example if i run it twice emerge on gtk-xemacs i run into trouble telling 
me xemacs can't find the root for data, lib. The only that i found to restore 
gtk-xemacs is to erase the directory  /var/db/packages/apps-editor/gtk-xemacs 
and also /tmp/portage/gtk-xemacs? Any idea?

Thanks
Philippe Namias


On Thursday 01 March 2001 23:03, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just committed sys-apps/portage-1.5_pre7, a brand new *test*
> version of Portage with recursive merging capability.
>
> Here's how to install it.  First, update your /usr/portage tree.
> Then, do the following:
>
> # cd /etc
> # rm make.conf.eg
> # rm make.defaults.eg
> (if they exist, that is)
>
> # cd /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage
> # ebuild portage-1.5_pre7.ebuild merge
>
> # cd /etc
> # ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default make.profile
>
> The _beta_ recursive merging capability can be used as follows.
>
> # emerge --pretend foo-1.0.ebuild
>
> This will show you the ebuilds that will be merged to install this
> particular ebuild.  Build deps will be listed first, then runtime
> deps.  There may be duplicates in the runtime deps list; this is
> normal.  The package in question won't be installed twice, since
> this dependency will be satisfied by the time emerge gets to the
> runtime deps.  To do the "real" install:
>
> # emerge foo-1.0.ebuild
>
> :)))
>
> I'm currently using emerge on cvs.gentoo.org, with success.
> It will also work (not with full profile support yet) if you do
> this:
>
> # export ROOT=/mnt/gentoo
> # emerge foo-1.0.ebuild
>
> All build dependencies will be installed to "/" and all runtime
> dependencies will be installed to "/mnt/gentoo" :)))
>
> Enjoy,