On Freitag 01 Mai 2009, Branko Badrljica wrote:
> I have noticed that gcc-4.4.0 is out for some days now and went to see
> if anyone has noticed it on gentoo.org.
>
> As it turns out, bug is opened by some avid user, but no one came up
> with ebuilds so far.
>
> Given the fact that the new gcc has
I have noticed that gcc-4.4.0 is out for some days now and went to see
if anyone has noticed it on gentoo.org.
As it turns out, bug is opened by some avid user, but no one came up
with ebuilds so far.
Given the fact that the new gcc has two new dependencies, which also
need theirs ebuilds an
On Fri, 01 May 2009 02:32:22 +0300
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> A compiled package might look for
> it's datafiles in /usr/share. If you compile it with --prefix=/usr and
> then move it to /usr/local, the program will obviously not work.
>
Most GNU software, but then again by no means all, ad
Nikos Chantziaras skribis:
> It would not. At least not always. A compiled package might look for
> it's datafiles in /usr/share. If you compile it with --prefix=/usr and
> then move it to /usr/local, the program will obviously not work.
>
> I know because I wrote software that does exactly
Frank Peters wrote:
Since I would only want to relocate a relatively small number of packages,
another solution I am considering is to emerge with the option
--buildpkgonly to create a binary package. This package can then be
unpacked to the desired location. Also, sed can be used to change all
Duncan wrote:
I hadn't thought of that use of binpkgs, but yes, it should work. =:^)
If you're advanced enough at scripting to be thinking about it, then
great, and the overlay thing above shouldn't be too bad of a challenge,
either.
Question that comes to my mind is why isn't this i
Frank Peters skribis:
> As I understand things, overlays could not be the answer because they
> are intended only for packages outside of the standard portage tree.
> I want to install some standard packages into an alternative location.
I use overlays to customize ebuilds sometimes; for instance
Frank Peters posted
20090430160833.ae6c8e22.frank.pet...@comcast.net, excerpted below, on
Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:08:33 -0400:
> As I understand things, overlays could not be the answer because they
> are intended only for packages outside of the standard portage tree. I
> want to install some stand
Frank Peters wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:29:00 -0400
> Drake Donahue wrote:
>
>>> perhaps you like to go with a prefixed portage:
>>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/
>>>
>> >From http://linuxreviews.org/gentoo/ebuilds/
>>
>> Make a folder where you will store your own ebuilds
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:29:00 -0400
Drake Donahue wrote:
> > >
> > perhaps you like to go with a prefixed portage:
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/
> >
> >From http://linuxreviews.org/gentoo/ebuilds/
>
> Make a folder where you will store your own ebuilds
>
> mkdir -p /usr
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:09 +0200, Justin wrote:
> Frank Peters wrote:
> > Is there a way, aside from writing a custom ebuild script, of changing
> > the install prefix for a package? What I want to do is install some
> > packages under /usr/local or /opt rather than the default of /usr.
> > Unles
Frank Peters wrote:
> Is there a way, aside from writing a custom ebuild script, of changing
> the install prefix for a package? What I want to do is install some
> packages under /usr/local or /opt rather than the default of /usr.
> Unless I am mistaken, there does not seem to be a way of doing t
Is there a way, aside from writing a custom ebuild script, of changing
the install prefix for a package? What I want to do is install some
packages under /usr/local or /opt rather than the default of /usr.
Unless I am mistaken, there does not seem to be a way of doing this
with either portage vari
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