Bug 4191 – Add support for makepp?

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Peter Simons 2002-06-26 05:51:15 UTC]

This is actually a feature request, not a bug report, so I hope that this is the
right category to submit it. If not, please let me know so that I know better
the next time!

Could some kind soul please add portage/ebuild support for the makepp package?
It is available from http://makepp.sourceforge.net/. I'm asking because this
thing is actually a Perl module, not a stand-alone application, hence I hesitate
to install it manually for fear that I break some internals of the package
system and lose update capabilities for Perl or something. I would really
appreciate it!

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-06-26 09:29:56 UTC]

Not sure exactly what you want here.  If this is just a request to add the
package into the portage tree, please pick any ebuild at random from within
dev-perl to see how to create the ebuild for this.  If it is a request for
something more, please clarify

[Comment 2 Peter Simons 2002-06-27 03:31:00 UTC]

This is a a request to "just add the package". I tried to create the necessary
ebuild file myself, but I don't know any Perl, I don't know any Python, and I
just started using Gentoo 7 days ago ... I _can't_ create the ebuild file
myself,  sorry! Makepp isn't just a plain Perl module but it's a binary that's
using Perl and that's installing stuff into the perl modules. I tried using this
as a starter:

inherit perl-module

S=${WORKDIR}/${P}
DESCRIPTION="An improved make"
SRC_URI="http://makepp.sourceforge.net/${P}.tar.gz"
HOMEPAGE="http://makepp.sourceforge.net/"

DEPEND="${DEPEND}
	>=dev-perl/Digest-MD5-2.17"

But the process failed with a sandbox violation. I also got a warning telling me
that the build process wouldn't work because there's no Makefile.pl.

Thus, if someone would be kind enough to create that package for me (and other
gentoo users), I'd really appreciate it.

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-06-27 03:44:46 UTC]

OK, just clarifying :)
I'll see what I can do

[Comment 4 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-06-28 08:14:22 UTC]

phooey, it's an interactive installation :(  

sorry, but this'll take a bit of a while for me to get to.

[Comment 5 Peter Simons 2002-06-28 09:19:16 UTC]

Thanks for doing it in the first place! :-) Hopefully, I'll find some time to
learn how this ebuild stuff works, I sure would like to contribute more than
just  entries in Bugzilla!

[Comment 6 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-08-16 08:32:21 UTC]

Joachim, here's a challenge for you

[Comment 7 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-08-16 09:15:36 UTC]

handing over to our perl guru instead

[Comment 8 Robert Coie (RETIRED) 2003-02-18 18:21:02 UTC]

Created attachment 8457 [details]
makepp-1.18 ebuild candidate

Here is a potential ebuild for this package.  Testers and feedback wanted.

[Comment 9 Robert Coie (RETIRED) 2003-02-18 18:23:05 UTC]

Created attachment 8458 [details, diff]
Patch to install.pl

This patch allows for non-interactive installation of makepp, fixes some bugs
wrt command line argument passing, and allows the package to install into a
staging directory, as required for Portage.

[Comment 10 Robert Coie (RETIRED) 2003-04-27 18:49:46 UTC]

Added arch-masked to portage.