On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:16:03 +0200 > "Martin Bochnig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Martin Bochnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> I would venture to guess that a significant majority of users will never >> >> need to or want to recompile or alter the software as you suggest. >> >> >> >> They're going to want a stable, tested version of the software, and that >> >> means a pre-built, pre-configured binary that's been signed by their >> >> vendor. >> >> >> >> Since you need or want a more flexible system, I'd suggest you discuss >> >> it with the pkgbuild folks. >> > >> > >> > Or on conary, which features "cooking source recipes". >> > It is as easy as this: >> > >> > # conary emerge --no-deps bash:source=3.2.10-7 >> > >> > (build bash and makes a binary set of "troves" out of it, which then >> > constitute a binary package that is under conary's control in its >> > database backend. >> > >> > Configuring the "recipes" can be comapred to setting up spec files for >> > pkgbuild (or rpmbuild). >> > >> >> Without "--no-deps" it would look like this: >> >> # LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/y/a.out conary emerge bash:source=3.2.10-7 >> + Methods called: >> Bash.setup >> + Building [EMAIL PROTECTED]:devel[~!bootstrap,~buildtests] >> error: Could not find the following troves needed to cook this recipe: > > So what do I have to tell it to get it to build and/or install all > the things it didn't find? That's what makes a package manager a real > winner - that it will quietly go out and install all the dependencies > needed for the package you asked for.
Well, conary masters all this and lots more since version 0.1 in 2004. For more information there is a Wiki: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary:conary_update You would do: # conary update tuxpaint --resolve %martin > > Likewise, that's what makes a good ports system a real win - that it > will go out and install - or build if necessary, or even build but not > install if sufficient - the dependencies needed for the package I > asked for. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. > > O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
