Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question

[Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:40:09AM -0400, Todd Berman wrote:
> Not to generate useless traffic, but I feel it is very important to
> reiterate this.
> 
> Please, please, please attach your ebuilds to bugzilla as text/plain and
> as single files. Two common errors I have seen plenty are attaching a
> .tar.gz or .tar.bz2, or, and more of a problem for me, are the text
> files attached, but set as an octet stream so the viewer wont kick in.
> 
> This cant be stressed enough as the 'proper' way to submit an ebuild if
> you want to see it committed as fast as possible.
> 
> And as an aside, maybe zhen or whoever maintains bugs.g.o can set
> text/plain as the default file upload, because i assume plenty of people
> just forget to change it.
> 
> --Todd
> 
> On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 10:33, Alastair Tse wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 15:22, MAL wrote:
> > > Is it better to upload an ebuild as a .tar.bz2 with digests, patches 
> > > etc. all included?
> > 
> > Ebuilds should not be attached as tar.bz2, they should be in text/plain.
> > It's actually written in the Ebuils Contribution Guide somewhere, and
> > also one of the most common problems with ebuild submission as I listed
> > in my ebuild mistakes list
> > (http://cvs.gentoo.org/~liquidx/ebuildmistakes.html).
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> 

Just to throw in a "me too" - it drives me absolutely nuts when people 
don't submit ebuilds as plain text. Patches et al should also be plain 
text. It's much easier for me to review it that way and will definitely 
get your ebuild processed faster.


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