[gobolinux-users] Freshen 2.2.4

[Michael Homer]

On 7/16/07, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
> Michael Homer wrote:
> >> Anyway, if (for example) one package depended on Readline >= 4.0 < 5 and
> >> another on Readline >= 5.0, shouldn't Freshen install both versions?
> >> (and symlink both... I suppose resolving any symlink conflicts in favor
> >> of the newer version)
> > No. Try installing Qt4 and then compiling KDE. If you want to submit a
> > patch that magically figures out the right thing to do, I'm open to
> > it, but otherwise I don't want to hose people's systems.
>
> Either use ChrootCompile or wait until Compile behaves in such a way
> normally, I suppose.
Yes. It doesn't use ChrootCompile yet because I'm not sure it's
completely ready for that, but after 014 it's meant to become the
standard. Until then, you can install programs manually and Freshen
will work just fine with them. You will have to SymlinkProgram between
versions manually, though. Part of the problem could be avoided by
distinguishing compile-time and runtime dependencies, but we don't do
that yet.
> I'm afraid I don't know where Freshen CVS is (and maybe not how to use
> it, or maybe it's obvious).
It's in the regular Gobo CVS on Savannah. You can check it out with:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/goboscripts
co tools/Freshen-2.0
It should run fine from within the checkout directory. You may need to
modify the settings file to suit you.
-Michael