Bug 60399

Summary:	BSD which behaviour differs from GNU which, replacement required on OSX
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Trixtrax <trixtrax>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	osx porters <osx>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	minor	CC:	ciaran.mccreesh, mrudat, ndimiduk
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PPC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	which-2.16 patch for g prefix on collision-protect+ppc-macos

Description Trixtrax 2004-08-15 02:05:24 UTC

Which is found on MacOS and depended on by some packages, such as the aspell dicts, clamassassain, and rpm2targz.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge a program that depends on which
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Comment 1 Hasan Khalil (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-30 13:39:29 UTC

macos has the BSD which, whereas portage has the GNU which. big difference there. ideas? is this to be another g<util>? is there a point?

Comment 2 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-13 17:18:14 UTC

*** Bug 67475 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Hasan Khalil (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-14 11:48:51 UTC

perhaps we can just add sys-apps/which (without a version number) to package.provided? I think this is really the only solution that's 'correct' and still useable at the same time. Ciaran: any QA advice on this?

Comment 4 Trixtrax 2004-11-05 01:40:19 UTC

The aspell dicts, at least, need a switch thats not present in the Apple shipped version. 

Without a version # - yeah, that's what I was thinking when I submitted this, I agree that it'd be the only "correct"/usable way.

Comment 5 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2005-08-28 12:18:49 UTC

*** Bug 100669 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2005-08-28 12:25:49 UTC

Somehow we need a GNU compatible which for applications that depend on
sys-apps/which on OSX.  Current application examples are aspell (RDEPEND) and
dev-tex/rubber (DEPEND)

Comment 7 Lina Pezzella (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-31 08:42:38 UTC

We could do what we did with sed and prefix GNU which with the "g"...

Comment 8 Hasan Khalil (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-10 11:57:59 UTC

Created attachment 70308 [details, diff]
which-2.16 patch for g prefix on collision-protect+ppc-macos

This is a simple patch to build a 'gwhich' on ppc-macos with collision-protect.
Then we'd just need to change the profile.bashrc and we're all set. What say
yee?

Comment 9 Nick Dimiduk (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-10 22:19:24 UTC

This works for me.

Comment 10 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2006-06-22 10:38:00 UTC

This is more or less tackled by Diego's efforts to de-GNU-ify the tree.