Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-19 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Sunday 17 April 2005 02:07, Daniel Drake wrote: Francesco Riosa wrote: Why do you semply add a cat-ego/pack-cvs/pack-cvs.ebuild near cat-ego/pack/pack.ebuild without get bothered with virtual and similar you can simply unmerge and remerge the brother package. There are many examples of

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing or testing software packages. Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.1 (the latest version) is installed on my system, but more recently, they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:36:19AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing or testing software packages. Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.1 (the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Robert Paskowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Portage doesn't contain many cvs ebuilds. Writing one might not be that much hassle, but why should I have to? We already have functional ebuilds to build that particular package, and I have some slightly newer source code (e.g. in my homedir)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:36:19AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing or testing software packages. Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.1 (the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Drake wrote: - I'm manually configuring a package that I want installed in ebuild-fashion. I know when an ebuild runs econf it passes many configure parameters to achieve this (installation into /var/tmp, etc.). It would be nice if I could

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-16 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 06:39:41PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Daniel Drake wrote: - I'm manually configuring a package that I want installed in ebuild-fashion. I know when an ebuild runs econf it passes many configure parameters to achieve this (installation into /var/tmp, etc.). It