On Wednesday 19 January 2005 23:47, Alexander Mieland wrote: > if I understand the policies and some devs correctly, this would also > be not good, to make this all in the basc-ebuild. Or am I wrong?
It creates valuable config data for basc. So this is certainly not against policy. > > And btw, I don't want to install this reference-package then (bash in > this case). It only should be a benchmark to get an accourate > compiletime which depends on the power of the used machine. Make sure that the "make install" part does not use "DESTDIR=${D}", but some other DESTDIR such as "DESTDIR=${WORKDIR}/tmp" (which you need to create). You can use the date function to time the start an end, and you get how long it takes to compile bash (or whatever). > what speaks against it to let the client do this by himself? Perhaps > in /var/tmp, /var/cache or in /usr/share...? Nothing, that is possible too, but you don't get portage's downloading code for free then. > Another question: > What's about 64bit machines or sparc, mips, ppc's, ...? > Would bash compile on these arches without problems or is there a > special version of bash needed? You could check the bash ebuild, but as portage needs bash, gentoo can not run on a non-bash architecture. The patches in the bash ebuild do not seem to be arch specific. In any case it is just a benchmark, so as long as things compile you don't need to patch bash. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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