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Bug 66154 - Move custom filefuncs used by baselayout into either baselayout, or a new package
Summary: Move custom filefuncs used by baselayout into either baselayout, or a new pac...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2004-10-02 13:32 UTC by Robin Johnson
Modified: 2004-12-04 17:41 UTC (History)
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Description Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2004-10-02 13:32:56 UTC
I've been working on doing a new mipsel port to strange hardware, and one thing that really caught me in my bootstrap environment was /lib/rcscripts/filefuncs.so*

Could it be moved out of the gawk package, and into either baselayout or a new package, to make future porting easier?
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-10-02 14:02:10 UTC
gawk is used heavily in baselayout so you really cant port baselayout without porting gawk ...
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-10-02 14:03:34 UTC
also, filefuncs used to be part of baselayout, but azarah moved it to gawk
Comment 3 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2004-10-02 14:42:41 UTC
The reason I want to move it is so that it can be easily put into place without having to emerge gawk (which is currently failing for me, but I suspect a toolchain issue [I haven't got it onto a gentoo toolchain yet]). There is a gawk on the box already however, that is why it is possible to split this up.

I ended up copying the filefuncs source out to /tmp and installing it manually, then baselayout started working (and since then gcc+binutils are still building, successfully it appears so far).
Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-11-14 06:20:01 UTC
No, they are too closely tied to gawk (somebody updates gawk, and they breaks
happily).
Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-11-14 15:59:06 UTC
talking to azarah, the reason it's there is because if you upgrade gawk, the possiblity of the filefunc's binary being ABI incompatible is common

thus we'd have to force a re-emerge of baselayout to rebuild the filefuncs module
Comment 6 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2004-11-14 18:03:18 UTC
as an in-between ground, could you at least offer the filefuncs as a seperate package as well as being integrated into gawk then?

Might the GentooBSD folk also have use for this type of thing, given their BSD awk?
Comment 7 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-12-04 17:41:22 UTC
I am working on something else that should be more portable, but do not want
to comment at it too much right now.  Is it possible to hang on for the moment?
I know the fbsd guys at least seems to be able to get gawk and filefuncs.so to
work fine ...