From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B402BC69 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 12:12:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l75ACpFk014775 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 12:12:51 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1IHd6Q-0000g2-00 for ; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:12:50 +0100 Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 11:12:50 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ANNOUNCE: Status of OCaml in Fedora Message-ID: <20070805101250.GA2573@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <20070804150958.GA20327@furbychan.cocan.org> <200708050208.02550.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1186284732.9925.76.camel@rosella.wigram> <20070805143108.5d3e06ff.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <1186308557.9925.125.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1186308557.9925.125.camel@rosella.wigram> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 46B5A2A3.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 dependencies:01 apt-get:01 dependencies:01 gentoo:01 ocaml:01 camlp:01 ocamlnet:01 pxp:01 yea:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 portage:01 binary:02 On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 08:09:17PM +1000, skaller wrote: > On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 14:31 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > skaller wrote: > > > > > Oh yea, and apt is so Advanced a Package Tool .. it even > > > understands source build dependencies .. NOT! > > > > apt-get build-dep > > Nope. There's no way to do it. This simply tries to install the > *binary* packages required. You can't autobuild dependencies > with apt, I've already investigated this. I guess that apt isn't Gentoo portage. Even having this facility isn't going to help you much if you are trying to upgrade to OCaml 3.10 because you still have to do the manual work to fix camlp4 changes. BTW: Debian people: I've done ocamlnet to 3.10 using a grotesque hack. I wonder if anyone has worked on PXP? Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat