Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portability eclass

2005-09-17 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 16 September 2005 17:42, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > If we'll find other functions needed for portability's sake, they'll > probably going to be there, too. Dropped the symcmd function, cleaned up the treecopy function (Martin, take a look at cp --parent, what treecopy does is jus

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portability eclass

2005-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 16 September 2005 01:36 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Friday 16 September 2005 19:28, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > current stable does yes, but ive started adding customizable compression > > to trunk > > Okay, then *that* is a problem :P Suggestion how to fix it? simple, dont a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portability eclass

2005-09-16 Thread warnera6
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Friday 16 September 2005 19:28, Mike Frysinger wrote: current stable does yes, but ive started adding customizable compression to trunk Okay, then *that* is a problem :P Suggestion how to fix it? You are going to have to ask portage what it used via a Po

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portability eclass

2005-09-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 16 September 2005 19:28, Mike Frysinger wrote: > current stable does yes, but ive started adding customizable compression to > trunk Okay, then *that* is a problem :P Suggestion how to fix it? -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ (Gentoo/Free

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portability eclass

2005-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 16 September 2005 12:33 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Friday 16 September 2005 17:59, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i dont see this being really useful ... either way, assuming the manpage > > is compressed with gzip (or compressed at all) is wrong > > Doesn't portage always gzip

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portability eclass

2005-09-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 18:33 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Friday 16 September 2005 17:59, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i dont see this being really useful ... either way, assuming the manpage is > > compressed with gzip (or compressed at all) is wrong > Doesn't portage always gzip manpa

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portability eclass

2005-09-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 16 September 2005 18:16, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > I do not think its so urgent?  Either way, we have elibs approved now, > so how about waiting a while so that we do not have yet another elib > candidate to port? There are at least two ebuilds in portage that uses cp --parente . It wasn'

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portability eclass

2005-09-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 16 September 2005 17:59, Mike Frysinger wrote: > i dont see this being really useful ... either way, assuming the manpage is > compressed with gzip (or compressed at all) is wrong Doesn't portage always gzip manpages? -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portability eclass

2005-09-16 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 17:42 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > If nobody finds problem in the attached eclass, I'm going to commit this > tonight or tomorrow. > The first function is a drop-in replacement for cp --parent (that doesn't > work > on BSD userland), the second one is a commodi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portability eclass

2005-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 16 September 2005 11:42 am, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > the second one is a commodity function to symlink > commands and manpages at once (as done by bsdtar and other packages). i dont see this being really useful ... either way, assuming the manpage is compressed with gzip (or c

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portability eclass

2005-09-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
If nobody finds problem in the attached eclass, I'm going to commit this tonight or tomorrow. The first function is a drop-in replacement for cp --parent (that doesn't work on BSD userland), the second one is a commodity function to symlink commands and manpages at once (as done by bsdtar and ot