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donjuan
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 Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 5:10 am Post subject: package.features? |
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I decided to start a new thread here since this is off topic. This is from the binutils upgrade thread. The discussion went like so
| sarumont wrote: | | donjuan wrote: | | ShawnWheatley wrote: | | - Is there an automated way to create these "crucial" binary packages? |
I don't know of one for creating binary packages of curcial system packages only, at least automaticaly. On my computer I have FEATURES="buildpkg" in my make.conf so it makes binary packages of EVERYTHING I emerge. So if I emerge a new package and have a problem with it I can mask the new version the type "emerge -k <package>" and it reverts to the ond one without recompiling. If you want to manually create a binary package you can look into quickpkg, which is part of the gentoolkit. All you have to do is "quickpkg <package>" and it creates a package for you. I think it ends up in you portage package directory. |
OT this sounds like a good idea for a /etc/portage/package.features.  |
I was just wondering how we are supposed to know that we can use the package.features file. Just through logic of deduction? I guess at this point we can assume that just about any environmental variable that can affect a single package has a package.* file, but a google search of "package.features site:gentoo.org" just turns up /etc/portage/bashrc, which looks like where portage has a function to parse the file and do whatever else. So is there no documentation whatsoever concerning this file? There seem to be a few things like this, like when the CLOCK= option got moved from /etc/rc.conf to /etc/conf.d/clock, I just decided to look through bug reports to find out why my computer wasn't keeping time correctly anymore and found that the option had moved. So basically I'm wondering if there's some sort of documentation I'm completely missing.
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moocha
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 5:54 am Post subject: |
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There is no officially endorsed package.features file, in that out of the box portage doesn't even look at it, even if it's there. So you're not supposed to know because it doesn't exist.
As to the bashrc thing - that's how I've set up a per-package environment system (providing per-package CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, FEATURES, and whatnot).
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kojiro
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| moocha wrote: | There is no officially endorsed package.features file, in that out of the box portage doesn't even look at it, even if it's there. So you're not supposed to know because it doesn't exist.
As to the bashrc thing - that's how I've set up a per-package environment system (providing per-package CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, FEATURES, and whatnot). |
Any more news on this topic? I didn't want to start a dup, but I've begun to need to do some per-package optimizations, and I'm not sure how to go about it... Any help?
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moocha
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I'll post my system as soon as I get back from a weekend trip, don't have the time right now, sorry.
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