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 sy
> 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
when I've got some time left over. As I wouldn't care about
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:19:00 -0800
Abhishek Amit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 th
On 10:49 Thu 03 Apr , Meir Kriheli wrote:
> 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
On 18:24 Thu 03 Apr , James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> Yeah. But I find that dobin, doman and friends ease that for most
> packages. I just put one together for http://www.mainnerve.com/lft/
> and used:
>
> dobin lft
> doman lft.8
> dodoc CHANGELOG COPYING README TODO lft-
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
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 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
> 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 Br
> "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...
Ye
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 skel.
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 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 yo
> > 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)
>
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 && m
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 questi
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 t
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 ther
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 h
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 a
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 we
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