From: Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: USE flags mumbling
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:45:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2E09A3.8000507@mentor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100702062204.GA9760@jama>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-02 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-01 16:24 USE flags mumbling Graeme Gregory
2010-07-01 16:50 ` Chris Larson
2010-07-01 17:00 ` Graeme Gregory
2010-07-01 20:53 ` Koen Kooi
2010-07-01 22:12 ` Chris Larson
2010-07-01 22:16 ` Tom Rini
2010-07-01 22:19 ` Chris Larson
2010-07-01 22:29 ` Phil Blundell
2010-07-01 22:33 ` Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
2010-07-01 22:39 ` Tom Rini
2010-07-02 6:01 ` Roman I Khimov
2010-07-02 6:52 ` Koen Kooi
2010-07-02 10:28 ` Richard Purdie
2010-07-01 22:22 ` Tom Rini
2010-07-02 6:10 ` Michael Lippautz
2010-07-02 6:22 ` Martin Jansa
2010-07-02 15:45 ` Tom Rini [this message]
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