[gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync

[gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync

[Daniel Robbins]

Hi All,

Tonight, I started catching up on my near 15-day backlog of Gentoo
Linux-related mailing list postings, and started hitting lots of discussions
about extensions to the dependency system.  This motivated me to add the
long-anticipated "*"-style dependency to Portage, and create a new Portage
release, 1.6.12.  It is now on CVS.  Here are how the new "*" dependencies
work:

Let's say you'd like a package to use the most recent 1.x version of freetype.
You can now specify the following dependency:

=media-libs/freetype-1*

Or, if you want the latest 1.2.x version of gtk+, use:

=x11-libs/gtk+-1.2*

You should only use the new "*" deps with straight version numbers; i.e. no
_alpha, _beta, _pre, -rX, or trailing letters.  They only really make sense for
straight x.y.z integer version formats anyways.  We will continue to extend the
dependency syntax to keep up with the needs of developers.

I also added a new version of sys-apps/baselayout (1.6.5) to Portage.  This new
release contains important fixes to the /etc/init.d/checkroot and
/etc/init.d/netmount scripts, as well as a couple of other minor improvements.

Enjoy!

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync

[Joe Bormolini]

I just merged portage 1.6.12 and now I get "!!! Error: circular dependencies" when trying to emerge anything. I can still use ebuild to unpack, compile, etc. but no emerge =(

	--lordjoe

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync

[Damaen]

Same here... getting it on every ebuild... 

On 2001.10.30 07:26 Joe Bormolini wrote:
> I just merged portage 1.6.12 and now I get "!!! Error: circular
> dependencies" when trying to emerge anything. I can still use ebuild to
> unpack, compile, etc. but no emerge =(
> 
> 	--lordjoe
> 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync

[Bart Verwilst]

Hi!

So that solves the QT problem as well?
=x11-libs/qt-x11-2* will install the latest qt 2 and
=x11-libs/qt-x11-3* will install the latest qt 3 right?
Cool.
I'll was going to reinstall my Gentoo System today,
but i'm going to wait untill the bug in portage is fixed :)

Nice feature btw!

Bart Verwilst
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Gent, Belgium

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Robbins" <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: <gentoo-announce@gentoo.org>; <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 7:55 AM
Subject: [gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync


> Hi All,
>
> Tonight, I started catching up on my near 15-day backlog of Gentoo
> Linux-related mailing list postings, and started hitting lots of
discussions
> about extensions to the dependency system.  This motivated me to add the
> long-anticipated "*"-style dependency to Portage, and create a new Portage
> release, 1.6.12.  It is now on CVS.  Here are how the new "*" dependencies
> work:
>
> Let's say you'd like a package to use the most recent 1.x version of
freetype.
> You can now specify the following dependency:
>
> =media-libs/freetype-1*
>
> Or, if you want the latest 1.2.x version of gtk+, use:
>
> =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2*
>
> You should only use the new "*" deps with straight version numbers; i.e.
no
> _alpha, _beta, _pre, -rX, or trailing letters.  They only really make
sense for
> straight x.y.z integer version formats anyways.  We will continue to
extend the
> dependency syntax to keep up with the needs of developers.
>
> I also added a new version of sys-apps/baselayout (1.6.5) to Portage.
This new
> release contains important fixes to the /etc/init.d/checkroot and
> /etc/init.d/netmount scripts, as well as a couple of other minor
improvements.
>
> Enjoy!

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync

[Dan Armak]

No, this doesn't solve the QT issue - it'll have to wait for [] deps or 
something.

Explanation: if an app needs e.g. >=qt-x11-2.2, you can't specify it with * 
deps alone.

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync

[Bart Verwilst]

But if an app needs the latest 2.x qt,
then =qt-x11-2* would point to qt-x11-2.3.1, no?
Or is there something i'm missing here? :)

Bart Verwilst
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Gent, Belgium

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Armak" <danarmak@gentoo.org>
To: <gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync


> No, this doesn't solve the QT issue - it'll have to wait for [] deps or
> something.
>
> Explanation: if an app needs e.g. >=qt-x11-2.2, you can't specify it with
*
> deps alone.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync

[Daniel Robbins]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:13:07PM +0200, Dan Armak wrote:

> Explanation: if an app needs e.g. >=qt-x11-2.2, you can't specify it with * 
> deps alone.

=x11-libs/qt-x11-2.2*

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync

[Dan Armak]

On Tuesday 30 October 2001 18:10, you wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:13:07PM +0200, Dan Armak wrote:
> > Explanation: if an app needs e.g. >=qt-x11-2.2, you can't specify it with
> > * deps alone.
>
> =x11-libs/qt-x11-2.2*

But, that wouldn't be satisfied with e.g. 2.3.1. While the app needs 2.2<x<3.

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 20:57:40 +0200
Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 October 2001 18:10, you wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:13:07PM +0200, Dan Armak wrote:
> > > Explanation: if an app needs e.g. >=qt-x11-2.2, you can't specify it
with
> > > * deps alone.
> >
> > =x11-libs/qt-x11-2.2*
> 
> But, that wouldn't be satisfied with e.g. 2.3.1. While the app needs
2.2<x<3.

Those series are what the new [] syntax is supposed to handle. I will
attempt to clarify the details about this with drobbins, then whip up a
sample implementation that people can play with. 

However, I will be away from friday this week to wednesday next week,
going on a pre-exam vacation in London. If anybody else here is around
London this weekend, I'm open to a meeting ;)

Kind regards,

Karl T