Useful Portage Wrapper -- cports.sh

thechris · Veteran Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 1203

i made a new verison:
http://www.siue.edu/~cstahl/linux/

basically it adds features for ease of mixing gcc3.3.3 with gcc3.4.1 and other power user features. it is a bash script though. it has some easily shown bugs at this point, but can be used for some tasks.

basically ebuilds with odd versions that either start with a letter, or have letters other then r and c in them will come up wrong...

but the wrapper checks for a /etc/portage/make.conf.ebuildname to attempt use a specific make.conf if possible. this is useful for apps that need specific use flags or cflags.

it also looks in /etc/portage/packages.gcc to see what compiler to use.

and it will look in /etc/portage/cflags.3.3.3 or 3.4.1 to see what cflags to remove! this way you can have a mix of gcc3.3.3 and 3.4.1 cflags in your make.conf and not worry!

really, i need some bug reports... i know of some issues and potential issues -- like aterm vs aterm.

make sure to chmod 700 and chown root on the file.

useage:
./cports.sh 'list of ebuilds' options
option is stuff like pUgGkf ect... no dash is needed.

rhill · Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 7:48 am Post subject:

hey,this looks great.

i'm constantly going into make.conf and switching maketest on and off for packages that fail their checks. this'll make it so much easier.

i can't believe you didn't get any interest in it. i see the last changes happened back in Sept. are you still maintaining it by any chance?
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Chaosite · Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:46 am Post subject:

rhill · Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:43 pm Post subject:

because FEATURES="maketest" emerge system doesn't work too well at the moment, which is exactly what i'm working on fixing right now.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73031
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