Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages

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

It will become default (by the way ebuilds are processed) if you put new 
netscape-6 ebuild into the same directory (check net-www, there are quite a 
few netscape-related dirs there).
However IMHO it would be unwise to block netscape-4 as many people still use 
it (and some may be hesitant to go with netscape-6).
If there are no special reasons, [ebuilds for] different versions of package 
can coexist within portage tree. The one having highest version and revision 
number is chosen if user does not select version specifically. Sometimes 
lower versions are installed, but this is the case when that lower version of 
package is listed as dependency for something.

George


On Friday 12 April 2002 12:25, John Dee wrote:
> One more question I've got.
> Would you guys be willing to replace netscape 4.x with netscape 6 as the
> default browser?
> Since netscape 4.x isn't really being maintained anymore (I do builds
> once a week, blah bleh), and the 6.x line is nscp's main focus, would
> you guys be willing to make netscape6 the default netscape browser?
>
> George Shapovalov wrote:
> > 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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