Am Donnerstag 06 November 2008 15:53:53 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > > And since ebuilds are very easy to maintain, it's far easier to keep a > > system current with them. > > Is there any advantage over Debian binary packages when using ebuilds?
Yes. As example I attached the ebuild for "nano". And the following is the diff between the ebuild for nano 2.1.4 and nano 2.1.5 (reduced: only changed lines): ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ --- nano-2.1.4.ebuild 2008-08-18 06:07:36.000000000 +0200 +++ nano-2.1.5.ebuild 2008-10-09 21:35:24.000000000 +0200 -# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-editors/nano/nano-2.1.4.ebuild,v 1.2 2008/08/18 03:43:38 vapier Exp $ +# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-editors/nano/nano-2.1.5.ebuild,v 1.8 2008/10/09 19:34:18 vapier Exp $ -KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~sparc-fbsd ~x86 ~x86-fbsd" +KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc ~sparc-fbsd x86 ~x86-fbsd" - epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-debug.patch #234959 - epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-open-mode.patch #232079 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ In cleartext: 2.1.5 is deemed stable on alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, ia64, m68k, ppc, ppc64, s390, sh, sparc, and x86 while 2.1.4 was "testing" for them. Also two patches were no longer necessary. Generally, updating an application is only a matter of renaming the ebuild file to the version of the application. But that also means, every user has to compile the applications himself (I like that, but it takes some processing time). > Note that I have no special preferences with debs and I'm not sitting > on a Debian system. What I pursue with this question is whether a > Gentoo GNU/Hurd would be easier to maintain up-to-date with usual > Gentoo repositories and whether it would be possible to avoid > situations like we are in at the moment: some packages are broken and > a lot of stuff does not work (emacs, for example). If we get maintainers for the Hurd stuff, then yes. But for that we'd still need people who maintain them, and thought it's far less work than doing a deb package (just rename the file), the update still has to be tested, so someone has to build it which takes about the same time as making the deb package. So I assume the main advantage is the high geek concentration in the Gentoo community :) > BTW, I once tried to build emacs from source on Hurd and the attempt > failed. I used to think that if I have the source code of a program > for Linux, not using some kernel interfaces, I could easily build it > on the Hurd, but it proved to be false... The emacs ebuild is quite complex, so I can well imagine that building it isn't that simple... (I attached the ebuild, maybe it can give you a look on the difficulty inherent to emacs - the ebuild is one with useflags ("I want that feature, but don't want this one") and custom patches). Best wishes, Arne -- -- My stuff: http://draketo.de - stories, songs, poems, programs and stuff :) -- Infinite Hands: http://infinite-hands.draketo.de - singing a part of the history of free software. -- Ein Würfel System: http://1w6.org - einfach saubere (Rollenspiel-) Regeln. -- PGP/GnuPG: http://draketo.de/inhalt/ich/pubkey.txt
# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-editors/nano/nano-2.1.5.ebuild,v 1.8 2008/10/09 19:34:18 vapier Exp $ inherit eutils if [[ ${PV} == "9999" ]] ; then ECVS_SERVER="savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/nano" ECVS_MODULE="nano" ECVS_AUTH="pserver" ECVS_USER="anonymous" inherit cvs else MY_P=${PN}-${PV/_} SRC_URI="http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v${PV:0:3}/${MY_P}.tar.gz" fi DESCRIPTION="GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality" HOMEPAGE="http://www.nano-editor.org/" LICENSE="GPL-3" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc ~sparc-fbsd x86 ~x86-fbsd" IUSE="debug justify minimal ncurses nls slang spell unicode" DEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2 nls? ( sys-devel/gettext ) !ncurses? ( slang? ( sys-libs/slang ) )" src_unpack() { unpack ${A} cd "${S}" if [[ ! -e configure ]] ; then ./autogen.sh || die "autogen failed" fi } src_compile() { local myconf="" use ncurses \ && myconf="--without-slang" \ || myconf="${myconf} $(use_with slang)" econf \ --bindir=/bin \ $(use_enable !minimal color) \ $(use_enable !minimal multibuffer) \ $(use_enable !minimal nanorc) \ --disable-wrapping-as-root \ $(use_enable spell speller) \ $(use_enable justify) \ $(use_enable debug) \ $(use_enable nls) \ $(use_enable unicode utf8) \ $(use_enable minimal tiny) \ ${myconf} \ || die "configure failed" emake || die } src_install() { emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die dodoc ChangeLog README doc/nanorc.sample AUTHORS BUGS NEWS TODO dohtml *.html insinto /etc newins doc/nanorc.sample nanorc dodir /usr/bin dosym /bin/nano /usr/bin/nano insinto /usr/share/nano local f for f in "${FILESDIR}"/*.nanorc ; do [[ -e ${D}/usr/share/nano/${f##*/} ]] && continue doins "${f}" || die echo "# include \"/usr/share/nano/${f##*/}\"" >> "${D}"/etc/nanorc done } pkg_postinst() { elog "More helpful info about nano, visit the GDP page:" elog "http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nano-basics-guide.xml" }
# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-editors/emacs/emacs-22.3.ebuild,v 1.10 2008/10/21 15:54:59 ulm Exp $ inherit autotools elisp-common eutils flag-o-matic DESCRIPTION="The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor" HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/" SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/emacs/${P}.tar.gz" LICENSE="GPL-3 FDL-1.2 BSD" SLOT="22" KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 sh sparc ~sparc-fbsd x86 ~x86-fbsd" IUSE="alsa gif gtk gzip-el hesiod jpeg kerberos motif png spell sound source tiff toolkit-scroll-bars X Xaw3d xpm" RESTRICT="strip" RDEPEND="!<app-editors/emacs-cvs-22.1 sys-libs/ncurses >=app-admin/eselect-emacs-1.2 net-libs/liblockfile hesiod? ( net-dns/hesiod ) kerberos? ( virtual/krb5 ) spell? ( || ( app-text/ispell app-text/aspell ) ) alsa? ( media-libs/alsa-lib ) X? ( x11-libs/libXmu x11-libs/libXt x11-misc/xbitmaps x11-misc/emacs-desktop gif? ( media-libs/giflib ) jpeg? ( media-libs/jpeg ) tiff? ( media-libs/tiff ) png? ( media-libs/libpng ) xpm? ( x11-libs/libXpm ) gtk? ( =x11-libs/gtk+-2* ) !gtk? ( Xaw3d? ( x11-libs/Xaw3d ) !Xaw3d? ( motif? ( x11-libs/openmotif ) ) ) )" DEPEND="${RDEPEND} alsa? ( dev-util/pkgconfig ) X? ( gtk? ( dev-util/pkgconfig ) ) gzip-el? ( app-arch/gzip )" # FULL_VERSION keeps the full version number, which is needed in order to # determine some path information correctly for copy/move operations later on FULL_VERSION="${PV}" src_unpack() { unpack ${A} cd "${S}" epatch "${FILESDIR}/emacs-22.1-Xaw3d-headers.patch" epatch "${FILESDIR}/emacs-22.3-freebsd-sparc.patch" # SuperH support (bug 238210) epatch "${FILESDIR}/emacs-22.2-sh.patch" # Fix sporadic segmentation faults in unexec (bug 236579) epatch "${FILESDIR}/emacs-22.3-linux-random-heap.patch" sed -i -e "s:/usr/lib/crtbegin.o:$(`tc-getCC` -print-file-name=crtbegin.o):g" \ -e "s:/usr/lib/crtend.o:$(`tc-getCC` -print-file-name=crtend.o):g" \ "${S}"/src/s/freebsd.h || die "unable to sed freebsd.h settings" if ! use alsa; then # ALSA is detected even if not requested by its USE flag. # Suppress it by supplying pkg-config with a wrong library name. sed -i -e "/ALSA_MODULES=/s/alsa/DiSaBlEaLsA/" configure.in \ || die "unable to sed configure.in" fi if ! use gzip-el; then # Emacs' build system automatically detects the gzip binary and # compresses el files. We don't want that so confuse it with a # wrong binary name sed -i -e "s/ gzip/ PrEvEnTcOmPrEsSiOn/" configure.in \ || die "unable to sed configure.in" fi eautoreconf } src_compile() { export SANDBOX_ON=0 # for the unbelievers, see Bug #131505 ALLOWED_FLAGS="" strip-flags #unset LDFLAGS if use hppa; then # bug #193703 replace-flags -O[2-9] -O else replace-flags -O[3-9] -O2 fi sed -i -e "s/-lungif/-lgif/g" configure* src/Makefile* || die local myconf if use alsa && ! use sound; then echo einfo "Although sound USE flag is disabled you chose to have alsa," einfo "so sound is switched on anyway." echo myconf="${myconf} --with-sound" else myconf="${myconf} $(use_with sound)" fi if use X; then myconf="${myconf} --with-x" myconf="${myconf} $(use_with toolkit-scroll-bars)" myconf="${myconf} $(use_with jpeg) $(use_with tiff)" myconf="${myconf} $(use_with gif) $(use_with png)" myconf="${myconf} $(use_with xpm)" # GTK+ is the default toolkit if USE=gtk is chosen with other # possibilities. Emacs upstream thinks this should be standard # policy on all distributions if use gtk; then einfo "Configuring to build with GIMP Toolkit (GTK+)" myconf="${myconf} --with-x-toolkit=gtk" elif use Xaw3d; then einfo "Configuring to build with Xaw3d (Athena) toolkit" myconf="${myconf} --with-x-toolkit=athena" myconf="${myconf} --without-gtk" elif use motif; then einfo "Configuring to build with Motif toolkit" myconf="${myconf} --with-x-toolkit=motif" myconf="${myconf} --without-gtk" else einfo "Configuring to build with no toolkit" myconf="${myconf} --with-x-toolkit=no" myconf="${myconf} --without-gtk" fi local f tk= for f in gtk Xaw3d motif; do use ${f} || continue [ "${tk}" ] \ && ewarn "USE flag \"${f}\" ignored (superseded by \"${tk}\")" tk="${tk}${tk:+ }${f}" done else myconf="${myconf} --without-x" fi myconf="${myconf} $(use_with hesiod)" myconf="${myconf} $(use_with kerberos) $(use_with kerberos kerberos5)" econf \ --program-suffix=-emacs-${SLOT} \ --infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-${SLOT} \ --without-carbon \ ${myconf} || die "econf emacs failed" emake CC="$(tc-getCC)" || die "emake failed" } src_install () { local i m emake install DESTDIR="${D}" || die "make install failed" rm "${D}"/usr/bin/emacs-${FULL_VERSION}-emacs-${SLOT} \ || die "removing duplicate emacs executable failed" mv "${D}"/usr/bin/emacs-emacs-${SLOT} "${D}"/usr/bin/emacs-${SLOT} \ || die "moving Emacs executable failed" # move info documentation to the correct place for i in "${D}"/usr/share/info/emacs-${SLOT}/*; do mv "${i}" "${i}.info" || die "mv info failed" done # move man pages to the correct place for m in "${D}"/usr/share/man/man1/* ; do mv "${m}" "${m%.1}-emacs-${SLOT}.1" || die "mv man failed" done # avoid collision between slots, see bug #169033 e.g. rm "${D}"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/subdirs.el rm "${D}"/var/lib/games/emacs/{snake,tetris}-scores keepdir /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp keepdir /var/lib/games/emacs if use source; then insinto /usr/share/emacs/${FULL_VERSION}/src # This is not meant to install all the source -- just the # C source you might find via find-function doins src/*.[ch] sed 's/^X//' >10${PN}-${SLOT}-gentoo.el <<-EOF ;;; ${PN}-${SLOT} site-lisp configuration (if (string-match "\\\\\`${FULL_VERSION//./\\\\.}\\\\>" emacs-version) X (setq find-function-C-source-directory X "/usr/share/emacs/${FULL_VERSION}/src")) EOF elisp-site-file-install 10${PN}-${SLOT}-gentoo.el fi dodoc AUTHORS BUGS CONTRIBUTE README || die "dodoc failed" } emacs-infodir-rebuild() { # Depending on the Portage version, the Info dir file is compressed # or removed. It is only rebuilt by Portage if our directory is in # INFOPATH, which is not guaranteed. So we rebuild it ourselves. local infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-${SLOT} f einfo "Regenerating Info directory index in ${infodir} ..." rm -f "${ROOT}"${infodir}/dir{,.*} for f in "${ROOT}"${infodir}/*.info*; do [[ ${f##*/} == *[0-9].info* ]] \ || install-info --info-dir="${ROOT}"${infodir} "${f}" &>/dev/null done rmdir "${ROOT}"${infodir} 2>/dev/null # remove dir if it is empty echo } pkg_postinst() { [ -f "${ROOT}"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/subdirs.el ] \ || cp "${ROOT}"/usr/share/emacs{/${FULL_VERSION},}/site-lisp/subdirs.el local f for f in "${ROOT}"/var/lib/games/emacs/{snake,tetris}-scores; do [ -e "${f}" ] || touch "${f}" done elisp-site-regen emacs-infodir-rebuild if [[ $(readlink "${ROOT}"/usr/bin/emacs) == emacs.emacs-${SLOT}* ]]; then # transition from pre-eselect revision eselect emacs set emacs-${SLOT} else eselect emacs update ifunset fi echo elog "You can set the version to be started by /usr/bin/emacs through" elog "the Emacs eselect module, which also redirects man and info pages." elog "Therefore, several Emacs versions can be installed at the same time." elog "\"man emacs.eselect\" for details." } pkg_postrm() { elisp-site-regen emacs-infodir-rebuild eselect emacs update ifunset }