Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-embedded] Interactive command

[Kristian Benoit <kbenoit@opersys.com>]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 08:43 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:13 -0400, Kristian Benoit wrote:
> > What I want is "emerge busybox uclibc vanilla-sources nano". Should
> > unpack only the 3 first packages, show me busybox menuconfig, uclibc
> > menuconfig and vanilla-sources menuconfig and only then perform the rest
> > of the installation as usual (without re-unpacking the 3 packages).
> I really really hope that you want this to be a totally optional feature
> that is never ever enabled by default.

Of course it has to be totally optional and preconfig should be called
before any packages compilation. So that you get every preconfig
interactive prompt before everything else is done.

> When I run emerge -uD world on a server I don't accept any ebuild
> waiting for interactive input. For stagebuilding and other activities
> this behaviour is also unacceptable. 

I wont accept that either :).

> >  And
> > save the configs for futur use. So if my configs does not fit my need,
> > re-emerging busybox with USE=savedconfig should get me the busybox
> > menuconfig back using the previously configured ".config".
> Patch the ebuilds with your .config

Nope, it would just use the actual solution, use the one
in /etc/busybox/busybox.config

> > But anyway, the question is not whether the idea is good or not, but how
> > to get a menuconfig that works within ebuild.sh (called from spawn in
> > portage_exec ... called from the user with ebuild or emerge)?
> *shudder* I hope this stays limited to your overlay.
>
> wkr,
> Patrick

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