Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages

[George Shapovalov <georges@its.caltech.edu>]

If you would like to see Netscape 6 in gentoo and are willing to spend some 
time on it, please do contribute by any means.
Now to the technical stuff.
You do not need to know many details about portage code. What is getting 
submitted is a set of build instructions wrapped in a bash script (and as 
such, the tarball itself will not help much).
Please see:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-howto.html
for a description on how to create such an ebuild 
(bash script (quite often very basic) containing install instructions). You 
can also look at ebuilds for other packages.
The ebuild and any necessary supplementary files (patches, etc) are to be 
submitted to http://bugs.gentoo.org, this page contains an ebuild submission 
description:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/ebuild-submit.html.

If you still do not feel like creating an ebuild file (BTW you can always go 
to #gentoo channel at irc.openprojects.net to get some real-time ebuild 
creation assistance) you can instead submit build instructions and any url 
pointers to bugs.gentoo.org as a feature request ( but this will take more 
time to process for obvious reasons :)).

George


On Friday 12 April 2002 11:32, John Dee wrote:
> I was looking at your netscape packages, and was wondering why you guys
> weren't using the 6.x series. The reason I ask, is that the 4.x series
> probably won't have another release (I'm the *NIX build engineer on the
> project).
> I'm also one of the build engineers on the 6.x project.
> Also, if needed, I could make a 6.x package for you guys. It really
> wouldn't take much to do.
> The only thing that might be a problem is the fact I don't know portage
> yet (I've been using gentoo a total of about 3 days).
> I *COULD* supply you guys with a tarball, and instructions, if you want.
>
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