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Date: Fri Feb 16 10:09:01 2001
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On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:23:07PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:

> > /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/foo-1.0
> >
> >         CFLAGS          Optimization flags used to compile foo-1.0
> >         CXXFLAGS        C++ optimization flags used to compile foo-1.0
> >         CHOST           The setting of CHOST used to compile foo-1.0
> >         USE             The "use" settings enabled at the time foo-1.0 was compiled
> >         PROVIDES        The virtual packages that foo-1.0 provides
> >         CATEGORY        Package category
> >         PF              Full package name
> >         RDEPEND         Runtime dependencies
> >         LICENSE         License information
> >

> You dropped the revision from the package-dir name I think. Good.

Not yet, but we should do that.  Let's get a list of minor fixes such as this
and then I'll apply them all in one go.

> Should we write a converter script for old-sytle packages?

Good idea.

> > pkgmerge also supports a new option, "--pretend".  If you specify it as the first
> > argument, pkgmerge will tell you the packages it would install (in order), rather
> > than actually installing them.
> 
> This is definately a good thing. Does it output the dependencie from DEPEND or the resolved
> depedencie.

# pkgmerge --pretend libmng-1.0.0.tbz2
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
/usr/portage/packages/All/lcms-1.06.tbz2
/usr/portage/packages/All/libmng-1.0.0.tbz2   

> Thank you for that big peace of work daniel.

You're welcome!  I've just committed a pkgmerge fix to Portage; a last-minute change to
portage.py caused it to die.

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