From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from tiger.gg3.net (142.13.111.219.st.bbexcite.jp [219.111.13.142]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4B7AkY6032722 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 07:10:47 GMT Received: (qmail 8394 invoked by uid 89); 11 May 2005 16:10:49 +0900 Received: from ols-dell.iic.hokudai.ac.jp (133.87.4.159) by 0 with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 11 May 2005 16:10:49 +0900 Received: (qmail 2496 invoked by uid 1000); 11 May 2005 16:10:48 +0900 Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:10:48 +0900 From: Georgi Georgiev To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New category proposal Message-ID: <20050511071048.GA2445@ols-dell.gg3.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20050508235004.GL6541@celeborn.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de> <20050509001920.GC12085@ols-dell.gg3.net> <20050509170725.GC21777@kaf.zko.hp.com> <1115717301.25756.14.camel@nosferatu.lan> <20050510110404.GB5931@ols-dell.gg3.net> <20050511033055.GC16717@exodus.wit.org> <20050511042745.GA22277@ols-dell.gg3.net> <20050511050920.GC17034@exodus.wit.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 5b9b259d-1f11-41ce-800d-17d357909753 X-Archives-Hash: eeb61346cf8b846d94e71d81b60a55c6 maillog: 10/05/2005-22:59:42(-0700): Duncan types > BTW, it'd be very handy to have "slotted" bin-pkgs as well, "slotted" as > in allowing me to do things like test a gcc4 created package, without > erasing my gcc-3.4 created bin-pkg, in case something doesn't work, and > without having to remember to manually copy/move the existing bin-pkg > first to keep that backup. A feature to enable some arbitrary identifier > in the binpkg name, or an arbitrary string as a binpkg subdir path > fragment, would be very helpful. Something like FEATURES=binpkg-name then > enabling a BINPKG-NAME=gcc4, to then either create a $PKGDIR/gcc4 subtree, > or $PKGDIR/All/package-version.gcc4.tbz2 type package and appropriate > symlink. One could then just remember to change the $BINPKG-NAME entry in > make.conf whenever one runs gcc-config, or whenever one triggers whatever > switch and desires a corresponding binpkg-slot change. Anything like this > in the works? PKGDIR=/usr/portage-pkg/gcc4 emerge -B app-admin/sudo That ought to do what you want it to do. But then, portage will be unable to untar-uncompress-sed/awk/whatever-tar-compress (refering to "fixpackages" by its full name here) the binary packages in your custom location if a package in there jumps categories. Wow, I managed to get back on topic :) -- / Georgi Georgiev / What's all this brouhaha? / \ chutz@gg3.net \ \ / +81(90)2877-8845 / / -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list