From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from chamber.cco.caltech.edu (chamber.cco.caltech.edu [131.215.48.55]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4406E2019D42 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:14:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from groug.home.net (PPP-36-240.caltech.edu [131.215.36.240]) by chamber.cco.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA09621 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" From: George Shapovalov To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:05:15 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <3CB7285B.2060004@netscape.com> In-Reply-To: <3CB7285B.2060004@netscape.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200204121205.15245.georges@its.caltech.edu> Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 907aa4f9-e19e-402f-b8b3-e88086817171 X-Archives-Hash: e505c9d3508ee1b9d1b8472c15c01592 If you would like to see Netscape 6 in gentoo and are willing to spend so= me=20 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=20 submitted is a set of build instructions wrapped in a bash script (and as= =20 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=20 (bash script (quite often very basic) containing install instructions). Y= ou=20 can also look at ebuilds for other packages. The ebuild and any necessary supplementary files (patches, etc) are to be= =20 submitted to http://bugs.gentoo.org, this page contains an ebuild submiss= ion=20 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=20 to #gentoo channel at irc.openprojects.net to get some real-time ebuild=20 creation assistance) you can instead submit build instructions and any ur= l=20 pointers to bugs.gentoo.org as a feature request ( but this will take mor= e=20 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= =2E > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev