[gobolinux-users] sandboxintall broken?

[Michael Homer]

On 6/30/07, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
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> kenneth marken wrote:
> > as in, its clear that the tools are made for contributors rather
> > then end users.
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> although, it's very nice that because the tools ask a little extra out
> of you, every end user can very easily become a contributor!  It is one
> of the outstanding things of GoboLinux versus other packaging systems.
> Also (for more than one-off things, which almost anything has the
> potential to become) it makes it easier to repeat compiling(/installing)
> what you already have.  I find that relaxing.
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> That being said, yes, the tools are not optimized for things that don't
> have a Uniform Resource Identifier (URL).  ...if you store stuff in a
> consistent place on your system, how about a file:///x/y/z url, does
> that make any sense? We really don't want people to get lazy and use the
> stuff they've already downloaded, it is way too tempting and makes it
> harder(read: non-trivial, so it is very likely not to happen at all) to
> submit working-anywhere(in theory), verified recipes.
You can just put it in /F/C/Archives and specify the filesize and md5.
It won't even try to download it, so you could use a nonce URL, or do
something useful and provide a real one. It's not a huge effort to do.
Extracted sources can go in /F/C/Sources in much the same way, but
you'll have to say yes, you want to use the existing directory (and
it's more of a hack).

I see no motivation to make that easier. If you deliberately choose
not to contribute and that makes your life harder, I really don't
care. So long as it's possible to get things done, and it's easy to
get them done the right way, I'm pretty pleased with it.

The automatic patching Isaac mentioned later on could be nice, though.
It might lead to large multi-functional patches, which we generally
try to avoid, but it would make makefile and configure tweaks easier.
It is something to think about.
-Michael