Re: [gentoo-dev] making metadata.xml pay off and removing pkg_postinst crud

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:00:31PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> for example, say i want to know 'howto' setup mysql ...
> root@vapier 0 root # emerge --help dev-db/mysql
> You might want to run:
> ebuild /var/db/pkg/dev-db/mysql-4.0.14/mysql-4.0.14.ebuild config
> if this is a new install.
> it will auto generate the basic mysql databases for you.

For pure static data (no if trees OR variables), this would work fine,
but the great majority of the output in pkg_postinst is dynamic.

In your above suggestion, the path to the ebuild is dynamic, so this
either you need to implement some custom parsing for the content.

However that wouldn't work when you want to base the output on an if
statement.
For mod_php, I have this:
if use apache; then
 einfo "Edit /etc/conf.d/apache2 and add \"-D PHP4\""
else
 einfo " \"ebuild /var/db/pkg/dev-php/${PF}/${PF}.ebuild config\""
fi

Furthermore, in your XML system, how do you get einfo/ewarn/eerror
colouring? (raw ansi shouldn't go into XML).

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