From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUiVc-00060t-S6 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:50:41 +0200 Received: from svr-orw-exc-08.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.97]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1OUiQz-0004Py-Rv from Tom_Rini@mentor.com for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:45:45 -0700 Received: from na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com ([134.86.114.213]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-08.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 2 Jul 2010 08:45:45 -0700 Received: from [172.30.80.212] ([172.30.80.212]) by na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:45:44 -0600 Message-ID: <4C2E09A3.8000507@mentor.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:45:39 -0700 From: Tom Rini Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <20100701172428.3b2ac88e@xora-desktop.xora.org.uk> <4C2D153E.1040608@mentor.com> <20100702062204.GA9760@jama> In-Reply-To: <20100702062204.GA9760@jama> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jul 2010 15:45:44.0564 (UTC) FILETIME=[A201D340:01CB19FD] X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.94.38.131 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: Tom_Rini@mentor.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: USE flags mumbling X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:50:47 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Martin Jansa wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 03:22:54PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: >> I wonder, and I have to admit to having no real gentoo background >> here, how do they solve this problem? Did they invent their own >> package format and add another field that consists of use flags? >> That'd make some stuff a lot easier, but making deb/rpm get that >> mapping somehow seems hard at first. > > They store all information about built packages in > /var/db/pkg/category/name/* OK. I thought they had finally added binary packages as an option a while back but I see that's really just a few really big things now. -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation