Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

[bsquared <bwcode4u gmail com>]

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Me too, but why not make an exception with jhbuild software. You already
> made an exception by breaking the guidelines of your package management
> system: according to it, each package must have its own package user,
> but with jhbuild, stuff built all have jhbuild as package user. Either
> that or find out how to make jhbuild stop installing everything under
> --prefix. You might need to change the code though.

I suppose I could install to /opt and link to /usr, but I really want to 
work this out.  The symlink package management ideas presented on LFS 
may be of interest as a workaround.

I interpret a package as more than an individual application.  For 
example, X windows has minimum requirements to be a functioning software 
package and they are released as a group, so the package is xorg or 
better xorg-core with group of xorg.

jhbuild user installs jhbuild.  ~/.jhbuildrc is practically empty.

xorg-core user installs X.
jhbuild build xserver xf86-video-intel xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse

gnome-core user belongs to gnome group and installs gnome-core moduleset.

individual gnome apps install as self (gedit user installs gedit, but 
also belongs to gnome group).

Using this scenario if I wanted to upgrade X from 7.6 to 7.7 all I have 
to do is:
> forall_direntries_from "xorg-core" -depth \( -type d -exec rmdir {} \; \) -or \( -not -type d -exec rm -f {} \; \)
and re-run jhbuild for xorg-core user.

For the group gnome:
> forall_direntries_from "gnome" -depth \( -type d -exec rmdir {} \; \) -or \( -not -type d -exec rm -f {} \; \)
This would remove gnome-core and gedit in example above