Gentoo Forums
Gentoo Forums
Gentoo Forums
Quick Search: in
Using Paludis with prefixed portage?
View unanswered posts
View posts from last 24 hours

 
This topic is locked: you cannot edit posts or make replies.    Gentoo Forums Forum Index Gentoo for Mac OS X (Portage for Mac OS X)
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
SirRobin2318
Apprentice
Apprentice


Joined: 24 Apr 2004
Posts: 241
Location: Strasbourg, france.

PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:31 pm    Post subject: Using Paludis with prefixed portage? Reply with quote

Hi,

I'm currently using prefixed portage on Mac OS X.
I stumbled upon this: http://paludis.pioto.org/
Paludis is a package manager that uses the portage tree.
Has anybody tried using it instead (or with) the current portage prefix?

Apparently Paludis has things like ${root} which make sense for a prefix use.
http://paludis.pioto.org/configuration.html:
Quote:
root, which specifies the install root for packages and the real configuration directory


http://paludis.pioto.org/faq.html#why:
Quote:
Why not fix Portage?

The Portage codebase is too broken to be fixed. It is a huge mess of spaghetti procedural code with no underlying design. It relies upon weird quirks in its own behaviour all over the place, so any change is liable to cause huge breakage in seemingly unrelated areas. It is almost entirely undocumented, and the internal names are perverse and often do not reflect what the code now does.


If portage really is that ugly, trying to hack the code some more to put a $EPREFIX variable doesn't seem such a great idea anymore...


Has anybody already looked into this?
Or can think of any good reasons why this is not possible/a good idea?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
spb
Retired Dev
Retired Dev


Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Posts: 2135
Location: Cambridge, UK

PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

At present Paludis doesn't have the necessary package manager support to work with the prefix ebuilds. I for one would be interested to see if it could be done without muddying the codebase too much, though you may find resistance to getting changes merged. If someone has the time and inclination though, I'd be interested to see how it fares.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
grobian
Developer
Developer


Joined: 31 May 2006
Posts: 67

PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2007 12:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ROOT support is not the same as PREFIX support.

I don't have any personal interest in getting Paludis to do prefix stuff, but don't let that discourage you to try and see if you can get it working.
_________________
Gentoo on a different level
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
This topic is locked: you cannot edit posts or make replies.    Gentoo Forums Forum Index Gentoo for Mac OS X (Portage for Mac OS X) All times are GMT
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum