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

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

2005-04-17 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Sunday 17 April 2005 03:03 CET Daniel Drake wrote: > Robert Paskowitz wrote: >[...] > > Having portage take your own tree from a particular user's > > home directory on the other hand seems like a bit of a stretch, and no > > necessarily all that useful. > > I would find this useful, but perhaps

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

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 Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Drake wrote: > 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 fixed a critical bug in the upstream CVS tre

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.

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

2005-04-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Robert Paskowitz wrote: > Also, if you planned on using a setup > like this, there wouldn't really be a need to have the source in your > home directory as well. I hack on the source in my home directory. I take automatic backups of my home directory. I don't really want to hack in /usr/portage/di

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

2005-04-16 Thread Jason Cooper
Daniel Drake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > 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 i

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 Daniel Drake
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 merging from cvs in portage tree. Portage doesn

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

2005-04-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Brian Harring wrote: > [...] and write an ebuild [...] I'm thinking in terms of making things as easy as possible. I'd rather not have to go to the effort of writing an ebuild for every package (and maybe some of its deps) that I want to hack on. > If > you're after basically having the unpack f

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

2005-04-16 Thread Francesco Riosa
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 latest version) is installed on my >syste

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.

[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 fi