On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 03:55, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 03:16:15 +0100 > John Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If they are linked agains 0.9.7 should they not rdepend on 0.9.7 ? > > > > I admit I have no clue as how GRP works. But this is what I gather: by > > using the -k you tell portage to just unpack allready compiled > > packages for the ebuild it's trying to install. > > the GRP works just as normal packages do, the metadata is exactly the > same as in an installed system. Thats where the problem lies in a case > like this.
Yeah, that was what I was thinking. > > > > Why not just have a package-grp-x.x.x.ebuild that has a binary package > > as source, and just skips the compile step? This ebuild should have > > the correct RDEPEND... > > > > Erm? that sort of doesn't make sense.. a grp contains the ebuild + the > files that would be merged into the system, thereby skipping the > "download unpack compile install" parts, but performing the other parts > from the ebuild, maintaining the RDEPEND only. Poit beeing that a seperate ebuild would allow RDEPEND to be set to the actual package it was compiled against (=package-x.x.x) without messing with the more general case ebiulds and killing the requirement to engineer a special case handling in portage. > > btw, why wasn't this reply sent to the list? Sorry, missed the "reply all"-button. > //Spider > > -John
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