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Re: RFC: generate automatic setup.hint with g-b-s?
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
> Gerrit P. Haase schrieb:
> > Am Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2004 um 19:02 schriebst du:
> > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> > > > Christopher schrieb:
> > > > > upset: *** warning package libsasl2 requires non-existent package libdb42
> > > > > upset: *** warning package libsasl2-devel requires non-existent package libdb42
> > > >
> > > > Has someone a g-b-s function handy that creates a setup.hint template
> > > > from the packagename and the depend(encies) output?
> >
> > > I doubt it. Care to write one? In fact, perhaps we should add a
> > > setup.hint template file ("generic-setup.hint"?), and use that
> > > instead of embedding the setup.hint contents into the g-b-s...
> >
> > Well, just thought about it, it could be similar to the depend()
> > function, just print out the dependcies in one line without versions,
> > so I could copy and paste it, that would be sufficient (for the
> > beginning), ideally it could be done in the depend() function as well,
> > since we already have the data, so why not provide different formats?
>
> requires is already in my patch I posted last week.
You mean, that big one with lots of stuff in it? Any plans to split it?
> sdesc and ldesc are a bit hard to retrieve.
...Not if you have a setup.hint template...
> external-source would be easy.
Great. When can I expect the patch? ;-)
Igor
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