Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 12 February 2009 07:01:36 Dale wrote: > > >> Sorry to butt in here. I !think! I get what sets does, you add a group >> of packages to a file and then when you do the @sets thing, it >> emerges/upgrades that group of packages. I get that part. I guess from >> what I am reading that we the user OR the tree devs can create a sets >> file. >> > > Yes. The old split -meta ebuilds were a stop-gap hack while waiting for set > functionality (the devs said as much in the kde split-ebuild handbook page) > but required that a full-blown ebuild be written. Which then had to be > manifested and either inserted in the tree or an overlay. i.e. > waaaaaay too complex for what is really just a simple list. > > >> So I could create a set called network and put things like Kppp, >> ppp, wireshark and all the networky things in there for my use alone. >> > > Yes > > >> I >> assume that the tree devs can also create a sets file with say all the >> KDE packages or maybe all the system packages in it for everybody to >> use. Would that be correct? >> > > Yes. > > >> I'm going to jump off a cliff here and ask this. How would I emerge >> kde-meta-4.2 and all its friends without using layman or anything, just >> a plain emerge @kde-meta and go to bed for a while? This would be using >> the sets feature too. I am using portage-2.2_rc23 so I should be ready >> to go with the new sets feature. >> > > Forget about anything with -meta in it's name if you want to use sets. As I > said above, -meta ebuilds are a hack and an ugly one to boot (but useful > nonetheless). Create a file called say "/etc/portage/sets/dale_stuff" and run > > emerge -av @dale_stuff > > Go to bed. To get all the kde stuff, I *think* that easiest would be to ask > someone using kde-testing to mail you a copy of the set file included there. > Or you could make one by hand with ls,grep,sed,awk and friends. > > >> Oh, is there a really good howto somewhere? Real simple non-geek >> speak. Cool examples would be really nice. I looked around gentoo.org >> but nothing really spells it out. I did find a HUGE thread about it but >> still not registering for me. I need a light bulb moment. O_O >> > > There isn't much in the way of docs. I read a blog post from one of the devs > recently but have no idea where it is. I'll have a look. > > It would appear from some code snippets I saw there that you can even do > nifty > things like subtract one set from another. Say you wanted all of kde except > three specific apps. Put those three in a set file, let's call it > kde_exclude, and run some command along the lines of > > emerge @k...@kde_exclude > > portage will "subtract" the exclude file from the big one and merge just the > difference. Cool, hey? > >
Cool. Thanks for the info. Nice to know I understood some things correctly. Even a dead clock is right twice a day. o_O Dale :-) :-)
