[gentoo-portage-dev] user-defined classes

[gentoo-portage-dev] user-defined classes

[Soren Telfer]

Hello All, 
I've been a gentoo-user for a couple of years now--I like
it, kinda evangelize it, etc.

I've had a hard time figuring out the status of user-defined classes
under portage, e.g.
      % emerge -uv my-class

If someone could apprise me of the situation and/or point me in the
right direction, I'd be much abliged.

Thanks,
Soren
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Soren Telfer <telfer@umich.edu>
Department of Physics OCS, University of Michigan

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] user-defined classes

[Brian]

I have an idea for the user-defined-class.   Portage could be given 2
new option's:

--nonworld, to exclude a package from being included in the world file
when specifically emerged.  Instead of manually editing the world file
afterwards.

--include {world,system,myclass1,myclass2,etc.} for portage to add the
package to whichever list(s) are specified.  If myclass is not found,
then create it and add the pkg.  The devs may of course want to exclude
world(duplication) and system from the acceptable list(used as known
values for example).
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] user-defined classes

[Max Kalika]

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Quoting Brian <dol-sen@telus.net>:

> --nonworld, to exclude a package from being included in the world file
> when specifically emerged.  Instead of manually editing the world file
> afterwards.

>From emerge(1):

     --oneshot
            Emerge  as normal, but do not add the packages to the world pro-
            file for later updating.

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[gentoo-portage-dev] user-defined classes

[Drake Wyrm]

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On Sun, 2004-02-22, 00:59:16 -0800, in <1077440356.1407.158.camel@big_squirt.dol-sen.ca>, Brian <dol-sen@telus.net> wrote:
> --include {world,system,myclass1,myclass2,etc.} for portage to add the
> package to whichever list(s) are specified.  If myclass is not found,
> then create it and add the pkg.  The devs may of course want to exclude
> world(duplication) and system from the acceptable list(used as known
> values for example).

Bonzer idea, mate! Though as a semantics suggestion, I propose
"--add". Portage and the Gentoo initscripts are sufficiently similar
that we may want to maintain the consistency.

In fact, such a change might help to solve some of the FHS issues which
were brought up recently.

 /var/db/pkg/ => /var/lib/portage/class/<classname>/
 /var/cache/edb/world => /var/lib/portage/class/world/contents
 /etc/make.profile/packages => /var/lib/portage/class/system/contents

This may be a difficult change to make right away, due to the many
hard-coded references to /var/db, but is definitely worth keeping in mind
for portage-ng.

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