[gentoo-dev] "ebuild quality" and dev base ...

[gentoo-dev] "ebuild quality" and dev base ...

[Andreas Waschbuesch]

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Hi all,

first things first: I don't want to complain. Just a hint :°)

My experience over the last two weeks is, that ebuild quality concerning build 
success on first try is far worse than back in October/November last year 
when I installed my first gentoo-system. 
So what's the (aka assumed) reason for this? Looks to me like there is a 
substantial difference between the several make-profiles. So I can imagine 
that not everything get's tested on any profile "scenario". This is where my 
question arises: what profile should I choose to get around those growing 
ebuild errors as good as one can? Is it recommended to switch to gcc3? What 
is Ur average test setting or developer base U test on?  
Besides: Yes - I do know it's simply my fault, when I rsync on a daily 
cronbase and _try to update_ the system. I could leave things as they are. 
BUT I want to have up-to-date core packages to reduce bug and security flaw 
"experiences".

Thanks in advance - Andrew

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Andreas Waschbuesch, GAUniversity KG MA FNZ FK01
eMail: awaschb@gwdg.de

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Re: [gentoo-dev] "ebuild quality" and dev base ...

[Ralf Ronneburger]

Hi Andreas,

I want to add, that it's sometimes, especially for a someone new to 
gentoo, quite annoying to get endless errors when trying to install the 
system for the first time. I was close to switching to another 
distribution for that reason, but now I've solved everything important. 
And another thing that I've found strange: is there really no way to 
change the configuration of a pakage before doing an "emerge"? For 
instance: I don't want and like xml and java on my system, but it comes 
with "emerge php"....

Best regards,

Ralf Ronneburger




Andreas Waschbuesch wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> first things first: I don't want to complain. Just a hint :°)
> 
> My experience over the last two weeks is, that ebuild quality concerning build 
> success on first try is far worse than back in October/November last year 
> when I installed my first gentoo-system. 
> So what's the (aka assumed) reason for this? Looks to me like there is a 
> substantial difference between the several make-profiles. So I can imagine 
> that not everything get's tested on any profile "scenario". This is where my 
> question arises: what profile should I choose to get around those growing 
> ebuild errors as good as one can? Is it recommended to switch to gcc3? What 
> is Ur average test setting or developer base U test on?  
> Besides: Yes - I do know it's simply my fault, when I rsync on a daily 
> cronbase and _try to update_ the system. I could leave things as they are. 
> BUT I want to have up-to-date core packages to reduce bug and security flaw 
> "experiences".
> 
> Thanks in advance - Andrew
> 
> - -- 
> Andreas Waschbuesch, GAUniversity KG MA FNZ FK01
> eMail: awaschb@gwdg.de
> 
> Death is nature's way of saying `Howdy'.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] "ebuild quality" and dev base ...

[George Shapovalov]

Hi

On Monday 06 May 2002 16:40, Ralf Ronneburger wrote:
> I want to add, that it's sometimes, especially for a someone new to
> gentoo, quite annoying to get endless errors when trying to install the
> system for the first time. I was close to switching to another
> distribution for that reason, but now I've solved everything important.
> And another thing that I've found strange: is there really no way to
> change the configuration of a pakage before doing an "emerge"? For
> instance: I don't want and like xml and java on my system, but it comes
> with "emerge php"....
Are you familiar with USE variables?
That is did you try to edit your /etc/make.conf and put something like "-xml 
-xml2 -java" in the USE line?
You probably want to look through /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc to figure out 
what USE variables you want enabled and disabled. 

George

Re: [gentoo-dev] "ebuild quality" and dev base ...

[Matthew Kennedy]

Just a supplement to what George described: 

   http://www.gentoo.org/doc/portage-manual.html
   http://www.gentoo.org/doc/use-howto.html

Matt

On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 18:40, Ralf Ronneburger wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> I want to add, that it's sometimes, especially for a someone new to 
> gentoo, quite annoying to get endless errors when trying to install the 
> system for the first time. I was close to switching to another