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With the newest release of Compile, Compile 1.12.0, a new API for hooks was introduced. For each step in the Compile process there is now a hook function defined. It’s possible to override this function from within the recipe, so one can define custom functions for how the source should be unpacked, built or installed.
With this post I will explain how it works and also give a short example of how one could use the new API.

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Development, Packaging by Jonas

Ever since the new flag engine came in it’s been possible to specify your generic flags in UseFlags.conf, using the same syntax you’d use in the GenericFlags.conf file. I’ve decided it’s not really worth having two separate closely-related files to do that, so GenericFlags.conf has been merged into UseFlags.conf in the default settings for trunk [...]

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GoboLinux by Michael

I’m happy to announce the new versions of Compile and Scripts. It’s a
bug-fix release, with several small issues ironed out.
The main issues fixed in Scripts are that InstallPackage now remembers
–no-updatesettings in reqursive calls (which all instances but called
with a local tarball as target are), make the option parser handle
option and arguments divided by space, even [...]

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GoboLinux by Jonas

We’ve submitted our application and put up our project ideas page here on the blog – read them over and see if there’s anything you’d like to try your hand at. We won’t find out if we were accepted for another week or so, but even if we aren’t contributions to those areas would be [...]

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Uncategorized by Michael

Edit again: the site is back up, with all but a few administrative features available again. The most user-visible one of those is WebSVN; anything else that seems broken please mention on gobolinux-devel.
A security breach was found on gobolinux.org yesterday, and the site has been taken down for auditing. This also affects the SVN repositories, [...]

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Uncategorized by Michael