Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatically generate ebuilds for PEAR/PECL packages

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 12:39:15PM +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
>  Stuart recently tried recruiting me to become a Gentoo Developer in
>  order to help him maintain "all things PHP". I said "maybe" and he
>  said that in order to become a Gentoo Developer I had to submit a
>  couple of ebuilds to demonstrate my "worthiness".
>  How about 300+ ebuilds? ;-)
> 
>  I wrote a script that receives the information needed from the PEAR
>  WebService and creates ebuilds for the current stable/unstable versions
>  of all PEAR/PECL packages.
> 
>  The script can be found at
> 
>    http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/stuff/pear-ebuilds.phps
> 
>  Currently the script is at a "proof-of-concept" level and the result of
>  a 10 minute hack.
The 'template' file it needs isn't around (it doesn't seem to be in that
directory).

If you could roll this into something like g-cpan.pl, it would go a long
way. The general policy for CPAN and PEAR packages is that we don't want
to pollute the tree with adding them until they are needed by another
package. That said, I've broken that rule a few times myself when I
wanted a package in Gentoo so I could easily deploy some custom software
to many Gentoo machines (which is being donated to open-source soon ;-).
 
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