Re: Adding Software Development packages to a box.

Panu Matilainen <[email protected]> Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:45:23 +0300 (EEST)
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On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Ed Wilts wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:35:31PM +0100, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'll take apart the comps.xml file download the packages and go through
> > > installing them manually.
> > 
> > You might be able to do some short-cutting here.  Pick a higher-level package 
> > with a whole slew of dependencies and use up2date.  up2date will grab whatever
> > else it needs.  This is one case where starting from the top and working
> > your way down is easier than starting from the bottom.
> 
> Actually.. here's a poor man's metapackage downloader for you:
> Check out what's available with './comps-req.py -l' and the you could do 
> up2date `./comps-req.py development-tools developments-libs` which should
> install the basic development tools for you.

..or to take it one bit further, with the attached script:
./up2date-task development-tools development-libs

(CC'd to psyche-list since this thread seems to be continuing there)

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