Subject: Re: xpkgwedge (and others?) in bulk builds
To: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/08/2001 15:50:51
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> Yes, I know this is what you do at the moment. But I don't want to
> install ssh or cvs separately - I want them to be installed from the
> pkgsrc framework. I don't want to think: am I on a bulk build box?
> Do I have to install this in a non-standard place? Are my keys going
> to get nuked? before I do anything. I just want it to work.
FYI, ssh and cvs are installed via pkgsrc *of course* in the bulk
builds. dito for perl after the builds:
( cd lang/perl5-base ; make bulk-install )
etc.
And you sure know that our ssh pkg never did nuke any keys.
> Which
> is why I'd like there to be a list of packages which shouldn't be
> knobbled, and why I think ssh and cvs (if appropriate i.e. in pkgsrc)
> should be on that list. I don't want the list to be huge, because you
> then run the risk of missing a pre-requisite package.
Er, and things like kdevelop and whatnot that can use cvs will just
silently pick it up and do things with it, without a dependency being
detected. that's not the idea of the bulk builds.
> > this is why so far only xpkgwedge comes to mind since it has a big effect
> > on the pkgs being built.
>
> No, I can't think of any other package that influences the way that
> pkgsrc itself behaves, either.
Maybe compilers (on solaris)?
- Hubert
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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>