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Bug 405727 - alternatives.eclass - various improvements
Summary: alternatives.eclass - various improvements
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Eclasses (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
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Reported: 2012-02-25 10:42 UTC by Hanno Zysik (geki)
Modified: 2021-02-08 12:23 UTC (History)
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eclass/alternatives: various (i.e., allow directories to be symlinked) (alternatives.diff,4.64 KB, text/plain)
2012-02-25 10:42 UTC, Hanno Zysik (geki)
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Description Hanno Zysik (geki) 2012-02-25 10:42:59 UTC
Created attachment 303143 [details]
eclass/alternatives: various (i.e., allow directories to be symlinked)

Here is the list of changes, updates and improvements for the eclass:

        - update copyright
        - minor cleanups/simplifications
        - ROOT -> EPREFIX
        - warn and do nothing if source exists and no symlink
        - 'ln -sf' does not overwrite symlink, therefore not being updated
        - allow directories to be symlinked
        - allow the following lazy usecase for ebuild/eclass:

                SOURCE="/usr/include/boost"
                ALTERNATIVES="/usr/include/boost-[0-9]_[0-9][0-9]/boost"
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-02-27 00:05:53 UTC
No MAINTAINER.
Comment 2 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-02-08 12:23:23 UTC
If you're still interested, please send this to the gentoo-dev mailing list for review.