On 12:11 Thu 07 Sep , Cedric Krier wrote: > On 07/09/06 10:58 +0100, Ricardo Martins wrote: > > > > Changes which you were aware of, because you were following dwm's > > development closely (I assume so, correct me if I'm wrong). > > > > My point is, not everyone knows what changed in config.h between > > updates unless their compilation is unsuccessful and they have to > > decompress dwm-whateverversion.tar.gz and diff their config file and > > the default (or Anselm's) manually, which is a rather tedious job -- they > > could have done that manually in the first place and avoided portage. > > It'd be good if this was done by the ebuild. > > > > Again, I'm sorry if I sounded too harsh. I'm trying to help you create > > an appropriate ebuild for dwm, since it is one of the few programs > > available out there that uses this system. I don't think Portage is > > ready to deal with it elegantly. > > > > > > The way, I do when I update dwm with portage : > > I compile the new version which copy in /etc/portage/savedconfig the > default config.h. > I edit it to match my pref. > I recompile dwm with portage. > > ( it looks like busybox's ebuild ) > > I'm thinking about a way to have the config.h with compiling but the > compilation is not very long.
The way I see it, that is just a workaround, and only works very well for a minimally to moderately customised config.h. What if your changes to savedconfig are not trivial? Being lazy, I think it is easier to just do a little change to one's old and proved custom config.h than changing a new config.h to be adequated to what one had before. That's only my opinion. One thing I don't understand clearly is in which conditions config.default.h is copied to /etc/portage/savedconfig (I advise against this location, /etc/dwm_config would be clearer). Is it copied whenever dwm is emerged (probably not, since it would overwrite your changes), or only when /etc/portage/savedconfig doesn't exist? In the latter case, the issue I talked about arises, since a deprecated config is being used, which results in a compile error. Regards, -- Ricardo Martins ><>< www.swearing-ape.net ><>< GPG key: 3B818E27
