[gobolinux-users] About Recipe "unmanaged_files" option (Hplip recipe in detail)

[Cavva]

2008/1/30, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se>:
> 2008/1/30, Cavva <cavallieri.carlo at gmail.com>:
> > Hi, i'm trying to make a "NewVersion" for the Recipe Hplip,
> > here the steps i've done:
> >
> > 1) created the new Recipe with "NewVersion Hplip 2.7.12"
> >
> > 2) removed the "01-sysconfdir.patch" because i think i don't need it,
> > if i've understood correctly it only replace "legacy" unix path with
> > the gobo path, but since the legacy path in gobo exists, i choose to
> > not "replace" them
> >
> The patch is needed as it will change the target directories. Even
> though the legacy paths exist you still want to install each
> application to its own prefix and this is what the above patch does.
>
> > 3) run "Compile Hplip"
> >
> > now, compile ends with this message:
> >
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/Files/Compile/Sources/hplip-2.7.12'
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/Files/Compile/Sources/hplip-2.7.12'
> > UnionSandbox: Cleaning up.
> > UnionSandbox: Moving entries to: /Programs/Hplip/2.7.12/.SandboxInstall_Root
> > SandboxInstall: Postprocessing Sandbox
> > SandboxInstall: Left over files:
> > System
> > System/Links
> > System/Links/Shared
> > System/Links/Shared/cups
> > System/Links/Shared/cups/backend
> > System/Links/Shared/cups/backend/hp
> > System/Links/Shared/cups/backend/hpfax
> > System/Links/Shared/applications
> > System/Links/Shared/applications/hplip.desktop
> > System/Settings
> > System/Settings/hp
> > System/Settings/hp/hplip.conf
> > System/Settings/udev
> > System/Settings/udev/rules.d
> > System/Settings/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud.rules
> > Compile: Installation step failed.
> >
> > I think i need to play with "unmanaged_files" but don't yet understand
> > what this options actually do and when and why i need to use this
> > option ...
> You don't need to play with unmanaged_files, but with patches instead.
> All of the above files are proper files of the hplip program so they
> should be placed in the hplip tree under /Programs. The settings files
> are taken care of by the patch you just removed, while the other needs
> either a patch or, better, if there's a ./configure option to specify
> the target directories for those.
>
> --
> /Jonas
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ok... i know that this will be a "master noob question":
why with this package i need to patch the path while with others not ?