From: "Sean Cull" <code_monk@hotmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple dependencies with installing packages from the CD
Date: Sat Feb 10 18:07:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F213Teip68V8zDv60gx00006a5d@hotmail.com> (raw)
Oh, I see. I wasn't aware that there were identical packages in different
directories. Thanks for explaining that =)
What about with those of us running pre2, and upgrading to pre4 when it is
released? How is that going to work? Or will we have to do a fresh install
of the new version?
Cheers,
Sean
>From: <drobbins@gentoo.org>
>Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
>To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple dependencies with installing packages
>from the CD
>Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 16:11:04 -0700
>
>On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 08:06:45PM -0000, Sean Cull wrote:
>
> > Regarding the recursive package merge, couldn't one just modify the
>ebuild
> > script mentioned in your bash tutorial on IBM Developerworks and add
>some
> > lines in to check the dependencies, then if it needs, say,
>Gnomelibs-1.0.4
> > (or whatever the current version is), it searches the "All" directory
>for
> > the appropriate package and installs it before returning to the original
> > package you wanted to install. I guess this is how the FreeBSD ports
>system
> > works. Or would something like that need to be written in something
>other
> > than a scripting language?
> > If I'm totally wrong on this, sorry... I'm still learning =)
>
>We can't just use the "All" directory because we have some packages with
>identical names, but in different categories. For example, there's
>sys-build/gcc and sys-devel/gcc. The only way to deal with this is to
>actually
>look inside the package at the packaging information, and this is a very
>slow
>process with our current package format. Once we add an (mostly
>backwards-compatible) enhancement to our current format, finding out this
>information will be very fast and will allow the Portage system to "find
>out"
>the actual category of a random .tbz2 file rather than relying on
>"contextual"
>(i.e. what directory it's in) information in order to figure out the
>category.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>--
>Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
>President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
>Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
>
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2001-02-11 23:44 Sean Cull
2001-02-12 9:47 ` drobbins
2001-02-09 13:07 Sean Cull
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2001-02-09 11:18 Sean Cull
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