Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Sets

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:57:43 -0400 Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| So I have implemented merging of sets (more or less) in a local
| portage branch.

Aah, good to see that you're picking up one of the more useful Paludis
features.

For those who aren't aware of how Paludis handles this... File sets are
a text file that live in repodir/sets/ or confdir/sets/ and are named
setname.conf. Lines can be in the form *atom , which means "include
atom in the set", or ?atom , which means "include atom in the set only
if the package represented by atom is already installed".

The big difference between paludis --install setname and paludis
--install $(< setfile), aside from the *? support, is that the former
won't reinstall packages that don't need upgrading, and the latter
will. It's the same as emerge world vs emerge $(< worldfile), the
latter being similar to emerge -e world...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail            : ciaranm at ciaranm.org


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