Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: wanted: script to build ebuilds

2006-04-30 Thread Barry . SCHWARTZ
Steve Herber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skribis: > I want to use ebuilds, versus tar, so I can easily remove the > package when I am done with it. Most autobuild/automake packages these days have a working 'make uninstall' that does what you want. -- Barry.SCHWARTZ at chemoelectric.org http://www.ch

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: wanted: script to build ebuilds

2006-04-30 Thread Steve Herber
I want to use ebuilds, versus tar, so I can easily remove the package when I am done with it. Your wizard script would be version 0.1 of the script I want to end up with. Thanks, Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: wanted: script to build ebuilds

2006-04-30 Thread Steve Herber
/usr/portage/skel.ebuild - Thanks for the pointer. Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 4/29/06, Steve Herber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This simply

Re: [gentoo-amd64] installed packages

2006-04-30 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, April 30, 2006 9:51 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Why not just use a more specific atom, one which includes a parital for > full version like: > '~gcc-4.0.1' > Actually, I wouldn't mind such a script. I have a ton of entries in my pac

Re: [gentoo-amd64] installed packages

2006-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 30 April 2006 14:53, Robert Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] installed packages': > whenever a needed ~amd64 package turns to stable, i want > that script to remove the entry from package.keywords. Why not just use a more specific atom, one which includes a parital

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: wanted: script to build ebuilds

2006-04-30 Thread Duncan
Richard Fish posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:28:23 -0700: > What would be the difference between having a script to create an > ebuild, vs a simple template ebuild to start from? The > /usr/portage/skel.ebuild is all of 17 lines when you ignore comments > and

[gentoo-amd64] installed packages

2006-04-30 Thread Robert Walter
hi everybody are all emerged packages noticed under /var/db/pkg? is there another place where portage stores information about installed packages? the reason i'm asking is that i want to write a python script that compares the new/already emerged packages (after an "emerge ... world") against /

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: wanted: script to build ebuilds

2006-04-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/29/06, Steve Herber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This simply couldn't be automated in a sane manner. There's too much Sane? A crude script that can create an ebuild with just the minimum fields may not work very often, but if it works for the package YOU want, then

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Late in the game Windows dual-boot question

2006-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/30/06, Christian Limberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Knecht schrieb: > Hi, > My Gentoo AMD64 machine is the only machine in the house with a > video card capable of running a Windows game my teenage kid got for > his birthday. I checked Cedega and unfortunately they don't support it >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Late in the game Windows dual-boot question

2006-04-30 Thread Christian Limberg
Mark Knecht schrieb: Hi, My Gentoo AMD64 machine is the only machine in the house with a video card capable of running a Windows game my teenage kid got for his birthday. I checked Cedega and unfortunately they don't support it yet. This has raised the spectre of possibly adding Windows to this

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Late in the game Windows dual-boot question

2006-04-30 Thread Jan Meier
Hi Mark, >I assume that the Windows install would wipe out grub. Would I just > reinstall grub from a Gentoo install CD to get it back and then modify > my grub config file to set up the dual boot? Any grub/Windows issues > having Windows at the end of the drive sitting in an extended > partit

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Late in the game Windows dual-boot question

2006-04-30 Thread Nuitari
I assume that the Windows install would wipe out grub. Would I just reinstall grub from a Gentoo install CD to get it back and then modify my grub config file to set up the dual boot? Any grub/Windows issues having Windows at the end of the drive sitting in an extended partition? I don't have

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Late in the game Windows dual-boot question

2006-04-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 29 April 2006 17:32, Mark Knecht wrote: >I assume that the Windows install would wipe out grub. Would I just > reinstall grub from a Gentoo install CD to get it back and then modify > my grub config file to set up the dual boot? Any grub/Windows issues > having Windows at the end o