As far as I can see, qmerge has no clue about pkg moves
How should it support pkgmoves? Isn't pkgmove something that should be handled during tree sync?
(In reply to Fabian Groffen from comment #1) > How should it support pkgmoves? Isn't pkgmove something that should be > handled during tree sync? Good question, I don't know .. but now rember, SLOT moves, like nurses did a while back. How to handle that?
as far as I understand, right now, Portage would rewrite the binpkgs to update SLOTs
(In reply to Fabian Groffen from comment #3) > as far as I understand, right now, Portage would rewrite the binpkgs to > update SLOTs Not quite sure I follow all this but a target using qmerge may not have portage installed or an updated Gentoo tree. How would pkg/slot move work here?
(In reply to Joakim Tjernlund from comment #4) > Not quite sure I follow all this but a target using qmerge may not have > portage > installed or an updated Gentoo tree. How would pkg/slot move work here? Not. And since the info is in the Gentoo tree, it may not even be available. As far as I understand, qmerge cannot ever do anything with pkgmoves.
(In reply to Fabian Groffen from comment #5) > (In reply to Joakim Tjernlund from comment #4) > > Not quite sure I follow all this but a target using qmerge may not have > > portage > > installed or an updated Gentoo tree. How would pkg/slot move work here? > > Not. And since the info is in the Gentoo tree, it may not even be > available. As far as I understand, qmerge cannot ever do anything with > pkgmoves. The move is in the profile which may/is availble. For simplcity one could ask for move explicitly. I hacked a simple shell script for my simple ncurces move: pkg_move() { from="$1" # full pkg name, PF i.e sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r5 to="$2" # full pkg name, PF i.e sys-libs/ncurses-compat-5.9-r5 db="/var/db/pkg" [ $# -eq 2 ] || return 1 # error, must be two args [ -d "$db/$from" ] || return 0 # nothing to move [ -d "$db/$to" ] && return 1 # error, must not exist PF=$(basename "$to") mv "$db/$from" "$db/$to" || echo "failed mv!" echo "$PF" > "$db/$to/PF" || echo "failed writing PF!" mv "$db/$to/$(basename $from)".ebuild "$db/$to/${PF}".ebuild } #Old ncurses moved to ncurses-compat pkg_move "sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r5" "sys-libs/ncurses-compat-5.9-r5"
