Re: RFC: generate automatic setup.hint with g-b-s?

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Igor Pechtchanski schrieb:
> 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?

plans: sure. time: not yet.

postgresql and phpwiki need all my attention right now.
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