On Saturday 05 April 2003 17:17, Jan Drugowitsch wrote:
If you do wrie an ebuild, you might as well subit it to Bugzilla as
well(bugs.gentoo.org). Takes five second to you and enhances portage for
everyone else.
I am quite sure now that I'll take a closer look at the gentoo build system
On Thursday 03 April 2003 22:21, Tom Wesley wrote:
I'm new here, but if the skel.ebuild file fits well in this case it would
probably be doable with a script.
One thing that strikes me as being more urgent would be to allow sources to
be built as non-root and installed as root.
Just add a
On 19:49 Thu 03 Apr , C. Brewer wrote:
The only issue is that lft needs to be suid to work for non-root, and
I've not yet dealt with that in the ebuild
-JimC
I know this is off the thread a bit,but you can chmod right in the ebuild..
chmod 2755 ${D}/usr/bin/lft
and that'll
On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:39, Timothy Grant wrote:
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 01:25 pm, Matt Garman wrote:
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:07:09PM +0100, Jan Drugowitsch wrote:
Is there any way with standard-gentoo tools to also keep track of
software installed with ./configure make make
I use stow, never heard of epkg before, can you elucidate on the
differences between them, or perchance why epkg is a better choice?
Why just not write an ebuild. Often even the skel ebuild just works with your
package, and you just need to add the url. (/usr/portage/skel.ebuild)
It is
On Thursday 03 April 2003 9:39 pm, Vano D wrote:
I use stow, never heard of epkg before, can you elucidate on the
differences between them, or perchance why epkg is a better choice?
Why just not write an ebuild. Often even the skel ebuild just works with
your package, and you just need
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Tom Wesley wrote:
I'm new here, but if the skel.ebuild file fits well in this case it would
probably be doable with a script.
One thing that strikes me as being more urgent would be to allow sources to
be built as non-root and installed as root.
The biggest problem I
On Thursday 03 April 2003 23:39, Vano D wrote:
Probably we could add a feature to emerge so one would emerge
--custom some_source and Portage would untar into the work dir the
file /usr/portate/distfiles/some_source-2.9.tar.gz (or other
extensions etc..) and would carry out a simple
Craig == A Craig West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Craig The biggest problem I find with cooking up ebuilds is sandbox
Craig violations, where some package doesn't necessarily follow the
Craig rules about where to install stuff. I occasionally have to make
Craig a patch to fix it...
Yeah. But I
The only issue is that lft needs to be suid to work for non-root, and
I've not yet dealt with that in the ebuild
-JimC
I know this is off the thread a bit,but you can chmod right in the ebuild..
chmod 2755 ${D}/usr/bin/lft
and that'll fix up the perms before the merge:)
--
Chuck
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 03:39:58PM -0800, Timothy Grant wrote:
I use stow, never heard of epkg before, can you elucidate on the
differences between them, or perchance why epkg is a better choice?
Well, I'm really not familiar with stow; I've really only heard a bit
about it, never used it. I
As I just installed Gentoo the first time 3 days ago (I was using Linux From
Scratch for 2.5 years now but I got sick of tracking all dependencies when
keeping the major packages up to date) I'm not sure if that's just a stupid
question but skimming through some documents and searching on the
There's a program called checkinstall. It doesn't look like its in
portage, but it will build a RPM, Slackware .tgz, or DEB file and
install it. I used it quite often when I ran Slackware 8.1.
http://checkinstall.izto.org
Jan Drugowitsch wrote:
As I just installed Gentoo the first time 3 days
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:07:09PM +0100, Jan Drugowitsch wrote:
Is there any way with standard-gentoo tools to also keep track of
software installed with ./configure make make install? I used
install-log with LFS, but if there's a chance to use a different
system I would be glad to hear
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 22:25, Matt Garman wrote:
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:07:09PM +0100, Jan Drugowitsch wrote:
Is there any way with standard-gentoo tools to also keep track of
software installed with ./configure make make install? I used
install-log with LFS, but if there's a
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 01:25 pm, Matt Garman wrote:
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:07:09PM +0100, Jan Drugowitsch wrote:
Is there any way with standard-gentoo tools to also keep track of
software installed with ./configure make make install? I used
install-log with LFS, but if there's a
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 23:07, Jan Drugowitsch wrote:
As I just installed Gentoo the first time 3 days ago (I was using Linux
From Scratch for 2.5 years now but I got sick of tracking all dependencies
when keeping the major packages up to date) I'm not sure if that's just a
stupid question
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