Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple dependencies with installing packages from the CD

["Sean Cull" <code_monk@hotmail.com>]

Hi Daniel,

Wow, a programmer that actually replies to his email? That's cool. I wish 
our developers at work dd that =)

Now, you make reference to 1.0_rc4_pre3 , but the website says the next 
release is 1.0_rc4. Did I miss a release?

But, anyway, that's good that it's being worked on. Other than that, I 
really like the distribution. Especially ReiserFS. It seems much faster than 
ext2.

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 =)

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: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:27:59 -0700
>
>On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 06:17:36PM -0000, Sean Cull wrote:
> > Is there a program/utility to install packages from the CD that require
> > multiple dependencies? Like installing Xchat requires GTK, requires
> > Gnome-libs, etc... At times, it makes installing packages rather 
>difficult.
> > Hopefully I'm not the only one that has come across this.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated! =)
>
>Recursive pkgmerge will work in 1.0_rc4_pre3.  We have a mostly-working
>recursive pkgmerge on the latest CVS version of Portage, but it requires
>packages to be organized in category sub-directories (right now, they're in 
>a
>single "all" directory).  We will also very likely have a slight
>backwards-compatible change to the package format in 1.0_rc4_pre3 to make
>recursive pkgmerge workable.
>
>So, we're working on it; please stay tuned :)
>
>Best Regards,
>
>--
>Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
>President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org
>Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
>
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