[gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, and it wouldn't matter. Even if 99.9% of ebuilds respected it, yours > could be in the other 0.1%. It should be fairly high though. Just run the > command, Ctrl-C when the ./configure stage has completed and look in > config.log in the work directory. Good plan and yes it did work in this case... thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:20:59 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-rootcommit" emerge cvs > > > > usually works, although not all ebuilds respect $EXTRA_ECONF. > > Can you make an educated guess about that? I mean is it a pretty high > percentage that allow that env flag? No, and it wouldn't matter. Even if 99.9% of ebuilds respected it, yours could be in the other 0.1%. It should be fairly high though. Just run the command, Ctrl-C when the ./configure stage has completed and look in config.log in the work directory. -- Neil Bothwick Windows: just another pane in the glass signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 19:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Robert Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Isn't /etc/package/provides the proper way to do this as inject is > >> deprecated? > > > > It's: > > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > > Is it really /etc/portage/profile though? All my other `package' > files are at /etc/portage > > ls /etc/portage > package.keywords package.keywords~ package.use package.use~ > > I saw the output from emerge posted here and it does say: >/etc/portage/profile/package.provided > > I just wondered if that is deprecated in favor of > /etc/portage/package.provided since all the other package adjustment > files are there and seem to work from there as expected. /etc/portage/profile/package.provided always works for me. However, I don't know if its location is being changed to /etc/portage/package.provided, where all the other files are placed. I did wonder why package.provided needed a "profile" directory, but have never seen the reason mentioned anywhere. R.C. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> I wanted to use `./configure --enable-rootcommit' (or similar) since >> this is a single user machine. > > EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-rootcommit" emerge cvs > > usually works, although not all ebuilds respect $EXTRA_ECONF. Can you make an educated guess about that? I mean is it a pretty high percentage that allow that env flag? >> It didn't seem worth learning to build my own ebuild so I built it >> from tar.gz and installed on /usr/local. Then unmerged the existing >> cvs installation. Now as I recall there is some syntax that needs to go >> into one of the possible files under /etc/portage to cause future >> emerges like the upcoming update to ignore cvs, but I've forgotten >> it. > > The file you need is /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, it is > documented in the portage manpage. > > echo "dev-util/cvs-x.y.z" >>/etc/portage/profile/package.provided > > should do it, where x.y.z is the version you have installed. That is good info even though it is apparently readily available .. I've left it here just in case it helps one other reader notice the usefullness of that -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
Arrgh, trying to do it from memory! Thanks for the correction. On Wednesday 14 December 2005 15:41, Robert Crawford wrote: > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Isn't /etc/package/provides the proper way to do this as inject is > > deprecated? > > It's: > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
On 12/14/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Isn't /etc/package/provides the proper way to do this as inject is > >> deprecated? > > > > It's: > > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > > Is it really /etc/portage/profile though? All my other `package' > files are at /etc/portage >From "man portage": /etc/portage/profile/ site-specific overrides of /etc/make.profile/ The read the file descriptions under /etc/make.profile/ > I just wondered if that is deprecated in favor of > /etc/portage/package.provided since all the other package adjustment > files are there and seem to work from there as expected. Again, man portage. /etc/portage/package.provided will be ignored. -Richard > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
Robert Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Isn't /etc/package/provides the proper way to do this as inject is >> deprecated? > > It's: > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided Is it really /etc/portage/profile though? All my other `package' files are at /etc/portage ls /etc/portage package.keywords package.keywords~ package.use package.use~ I saw the output from emerge posted here and it does say: /etc/portage/profile/package.provided I just wondered if that is deprecated in favor of /etc/portage/package.provided since all the other package adjustment files are there and seem to work from there as expected. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Isn't /etc/package/provides the proper way to do this as inject is > deprecated? It's: /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: 2005/12/14 Wed AM 12:35:17 EST > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from > > tar.gz > > > > Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > emerge --inject 'app-foo/bar-1.2.3' > > > > > > Sounds like that's what you're thinking of. > > > -- > > > > That may be a way to do it. It isn't what I was thinking of though. > > I've never heard of this and man emerges has almost nothing to say > > about it. And `man inject' doesn't now about it at all. > > > > The man page makes a brief comment: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
Isn't /etc/package/provides the proper way to do this as inject is deprecated? > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 2005/12/14 Wed AM 12:35:17 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from > tar.gz > > Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > emerge --inject 'app-foo/bar-1.2.3' > > > > Sounds like that's what you're thinking of. > > -- > > That may be a way to do it. It isn't what I was thinking of though. > I've never heard of this and man emerges has almost nothing to say > about it. And `man inject' doesn't now about it at all. > > The man page makes a brief comment: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: emerge --inject 'app-foo/bar-1.2.3' Sounds like that's what you're thinking of. -- That may be a way to do it. It isn't what I was thinking of though. I've never heard of this and man emerges has almost nothing to say about it. And `man inject' doesn't now about it at all. The man page makes a brief comment: [ebuild U-] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0 [4.2.99.902] The - represents lack of SLOT information about Xfree. This will occur when the previous version emerged was injected (see inject for more info) or very outdated (so old that SLOT did not exist). Either way, a newer version of Xfree is availabe for your updating delight. But fails to mention where one can `see inject'. That is the only occurance of `inject' in man emerge. I think is was something entered in /etc/portag/package.SOMETHING I think emerge --inject is being deprecated, but I can't remember any sort of alternative. What the command does is tell Portage to think a package is installed, regardless of whether or not it is. I believe its purpose is/was to allow developers to muck around with patches and uber-unstable builds (e.g. CVS snapshots) without having to learn ebuild-ing in order to satisfy dependencies on other packages. Aha! A bit of effort solves everything! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge --inject *** --inject has been deprecated. *** If you manage a piece of software yourself, add it's name and *** version (eg foo/bar-1.0) to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. *** If you want to prevent portage from upgrading a package, add it to *** /etc/portage/package.mask prepending it with '>' (eg >foo/bar-1.0) *** For more information on fine-grained portage control, please see *** the portage man page. emerge: root access required. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ I have a feeling (Captain Obvious strikes again!) that /etc/portage/profile/package.provided is what you're looking for... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > emerge --inject 'app-foo/bar-1.2.3' > > Sounds like that's what you're thinking of. > -- That may be a way to do it. It isn't what I was thinking of though. I've never heard of this and man emerges has almost nothing to say about it. And `man inject' doesn't now about it at all. The man page makes a brief comment: [ebuild U-] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0 [4.2.99.902] The - represents lack of SLOT information about Xfree. This will occur when the previous version emerged was injected (see inject for more info) or very outdated (so old that SLOT did not exist). Either way, a newer version of Xfree is availabe for your updating delight. But fails to mention where one can `see inject'. That is the only occurance of `inject' in man emerge. I think is was something entered in /etc/portag/package.SOMETHING -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
